* Kasischke writes poetry, novels, and YA novels * Her novel The Life Before Her Eyeswas made into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood * She has a deep interest in fairy tales, and is especially inspired by Yeats¿s renditions of Irish folk tales. * Where Now: New and Selected (Copper Canyon Press) was Longlisted for National Book Award for Poetry * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains * Previous Kasischke books by Copper Canyon were well-reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Review, and received numerous ¿Best Book of the Year¿ accolades. * Has lived and worked in Michigan her entire life, and many of her poems draw from the suburban landscape of the Midwest.