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Kaethe Schwehn

Kaethe Schwehn
Kaethe Schwehn’s debut novel The Rending and the Nest is out now from Bloomsbury. Her first book, Tailings: A Memoir, won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and her chapbook of poems, Tanka & Me, was selected for the Mineral Point Chapbook Series. In addition to holding MFAs from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Montana, Schwehn has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, a Minnesota Arts Board grant, and a Loft Mentor Series award. She teaches at St. Olaf College and lives in Northfield, Minnesota.


How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Writing Group

Dispensing with the Myth of the Solitary Genius Once and For All
February 20, 2018  By Kaethe Schwehn
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