Kass Fleisher
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| Born | October 21, 1959 Wilmington, Delaware |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, screenplays |
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H. Kassia (Kass) Fleisher (born October 21, 1959) is an American writer best known for her fiction and creative nonfiction.
Biography
Fleisher holds degrees in English from Dickinson College (B.A., 1981), the University of North Dakota (M.A., 1989), and Binghamton University (Ph.D., 1993). Fleisher is the author of five books and numerous essays and reviews, and the editor, with Caitlin M. Alvarez, of a literary anthology. With her frequent writing partner, Joe Amato, Fleisher has written a full-length play and several screenplays (none of which have been produced to date). Since 2003, Fleisher has taught creative writing at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She's the founding publisher of Steerage Press.
Books
As author
- The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (SUNY Press, 2004)
- Accidental Species: A Reproduction (Chax Press, 2005)
- The Adventurous (Factory School, 2006)
- Talking out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008)
- Dead Woman Hollow (SUNY Press, 2012)
As editor
External links
- Official site of Kass Fleisher
- http://english.illinoisstate.edu/people/index.aspx?action=profile&ulid=hkfleis&dept=424
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Categories:
- American memoirists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Dickinson College alumni
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Illinois State University faculty
- American women novelists
- American women memoirists
- American women essayists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American essayists
- Novelists from Illinois
- 21st-century memoirists