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Kirsten Bakis

Kirsten Bakis
Kirsten Bakis teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Her previous novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel, and was shortlisted for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in New York's lower Hudson Valley.


UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

The Author of "King Nyx" on the Paranormalist Charles Fort, Theodore Dreiser, and Dismissing Women's Intellects
February 21, 2024  By Kirsten Bakis
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Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna
February 21, 2024  By Kirsten Bakis
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