Julia Kasdorf

Julia Spicher Kasdorf has published four books in the Pitt Poetry Series, including her most recent collection, As Is. With photographer Steven Rubin, she created Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a large format documentary project depicting the impacts of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. They are now working on a similar project to show the range of agricultural resilience within thirty miles of her home in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. She is a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State, where she directs the Ceative Writing Program.