Judith Kitchen (1941–2014)
Auteur van In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
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Judith Kitchen attended college in Vermont. After graduating, she worked as a part-time secretary, an assistant in a carnival supply business, with the New York state Poets in the Schools, and finally as an instructor at SUNY College at Brockport. For twenty years, she served as editor and toon meer publisher of the State Street Press Chapbook Series. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Perennials, Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford, Only the Dance, Distance and Direction, Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate, and The Circus Train. The House on Eccles Road won the S. Mariella Gable Prize in fiction. Her work has also won the Lillian Fairchild Award, the Anhinga Prize for poetry, and two Pushcart Prizes. She was the co-director of the Rainier Writing Workshop with her husband, Stan Sanvel Rubin. She died of cancer in November 2014 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Judith Kitchen is the author of three collections of essays, a novel, a collection of poetry, and a critical study. In addition, she has edited or co-edited three collections of short nonfiction pieces, an anthology of poetry, and a collection of literary interviews. Her awards include an NEA fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the Lillian Fairchild Award, and the S. Mariella Gable Award. She has served as judge for the AWP Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize in poetry, the Oregon Book Award, and the Bush Foundation Fellowships, among others. She lives in Port Townsend, WA, where she serves on the faculty and as co-director of the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA at Pacific Lutheran University.
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The problem with anthologies, of course, is that some pieces resonate and others don't, and you won't know which is which until you read them all, given the sheer range of writers included (76 in this collection).
I only liked bits and pieces of certain essays, and there were many I didn't care for at all, whether because they were boring, or they featured sexual content, profanity, or the notion that evolutionary theory is fact.
I also wish the bio for each writer appeared directly after their work (instead of compiled toward the end), so I wouldn't have to flip back and forth after each piece.… (meer)