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 the 2006 recipient of the C. Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship (an Oregon Literary Fellowship) which will fund her proposal to run a week-long series of bilingual poetry workshops for Mexican women working in maquiladoras on the border of Texas and Mexico. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and Nimrod.  She recently completed her tenure as the 2007 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 manuscript, Beautiful in the Mouth, which contains poems currently published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Parthenon West Review, and Faultline, among others. You can listen to her read her work at the online audio archive The Fishouse.  She lives in Missoula, Montana with her dog, Bishop.