
Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes. Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Kasischke's work is particularly well-received in France, where she is widely read in translation. Her novel A moi pour toujours (Be Mine) was published by Christian Bourgois, and was a national best seller. Kasischke attended the University of Michigan and Columbia University. She is also currently a Professor of English Language and of the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.
Series
Books

Space, in Chains
2011

Suspicious River
1996

Where Now
New and Selected Poems
2017

In a Perfect World
2009

Eden Springs
2010

Dance and Disappear
2002

America - Numéro 4
2018

Lilies Without
2007

Wild Brides
1991

Mind of Winter
2013

Boy Heaven
2006

White Bird in a Blizzard
1999

If a Stranger Approaches You
2013

The Life Before Her Eyes
2002

The Raising
2011

Be Mine
2007

The Infinitesimals
2014

What It Wasn't
2002

Feathered
2008

Lightning Falls in Love
2021

Gardening in the Dark
2004

Fire & Flower
1998