biography
Keetje
Kuipers
is a native of the Northwest. She earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College
and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She is now a Stegner Fellow
at Stanford University.
In 2007 Keetje
was the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She used the
residency to complete work on her book Beautiful in the Mouth,
which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and is now published
by BOA Editions.
In
addition, Keetje has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont
Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts,
and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and
Nimrod. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie
Schooner, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly,
Willow Springs, and AGNI, among others, and have been
nominated four years in a row for the Pushcart Prize. You can also listen
to her read her work at the online audio archive From the Fishouse.
She lives in
San Francisco, California and Missoula, Montana with her dog, Bishop.