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Kendra Atleework

Kendra Atleework
Kendra Atleework received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. An essay that formed the basis for a chapter of Miracle Country was selected for The Best American Essays 2015. She is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and the AWP Intro Journals Project Award.


On Hope, Resilience, and Denial in the Great State of California

"The inheritance of California is half-gorgeous, half-deadly."
July 15, 2020  By Kendra Atleework
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