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Noted writer Kirsten Kaschock will give a reading at CU-Bloomsburg on Monday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Haas Gallery Lobby. Her visit is part of the Big Dog Reading Series. Her newly released novel, An Impossibility of Crows, won the 2025 Juniper Literary Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press.  

Kaschock is a poet and novelist who writes across genres. With a background in dance, she consistently addresses intersections between language and body. The author of seven poetry books, she has received fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Subcircle, and the Summer Literary Seminars. Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel—Sleight. She has lived in Iowa, New York, Georgia, and Maryland—and currently resides in Northeast Pennsylvania with her partner. 

Her work has been called “gothic and intense,” “as fascinating as it is disturbing,” and “inventive and exhilarating.” As Cheryl Strayed once noted: “There isn’t anyone like any single one of us, but the way there is no one like Kirsten Kaschock is a different thing.”

The Big Dog Reading Series is a part of the Creative Writing program at CU-Bloomsburg.