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Katherine Standefer

Katherine Standefer
Katherine E. Standefer writes about the body, consent, and medical technology from Tucson. Winner of the 2015 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, her work appears in The Best American Essays 2016, Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays ), and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, and many literary journals. Standefer earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of Arizona, where she now lectures in a narrative medicine pilot at the College of Medicine. She prefers cowboy boots.


Cheryl Strayed is Fed Up with Memoir-Bashing

This Year's Kore Press Memoir Award Judge Talks Literary Justice and More
September 22, 2017  By Katherine Standefer
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