The Author
Fixing Tradition

Julia Kasdorf was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Irwin, Pennsylvania. She attended Goshen (Ind.) College and New York University and lived in Brooklyn for more than a decade before returning to central Pennsylvania in 1996.

Her first book of poetry, Sleeping Preacher, published in 1992 by University of Pittsburgh Press, was awarded the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the 1993 Great Lakes Colleges Award for New Writing. A second collection of poems, Eve’s Striptease, was published in 1998, also by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In 2001, Johns Hopkins University published her book of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life.

Kasdorf is an Associate Professor of English and directs the graduate creative writing program at the Pennsylvania State University. She lives in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

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