Keetje Kuipers
Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest. She earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College and an M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone. In 2007 she completed her tenure as the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, which provided her with seven months of solitude in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. She used her time there to complete work on her book,
Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published in March 2010 by
BOA Editions. In addition to being featured here, the work from her book has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five years in a row, and has been published in such magazines as
Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Willow Springs, and
AGNI. Keetje has taught writing at the University of Montana and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
First posted on December 24, 2006 6:38 AM
