Julia Kasdorf

Julia Spicher Kasdorf has published four books in the Pitt Poetry Series, including her 2023 collection, As Is. With photographer Steven Rubin, she created Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a large format documentary project. She is currently working with Rubin on a similar project to show the range of agricultural resilience within thirty miles of her home in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life and a biography, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. She is a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State, University Park campus, where she directs the Ceative Writing Program. https://www.juliakasdorf.com