The University of Iowa Department of English
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Office: EPB 423
Phone: 319-335-2608
E-mail: stephen-kuusisto@uiowa.edu

Curriclum Vitae

Stephen Kuusisto

Nonfiction Writing Program

Stephen Kuusisto is the author of Only Bread, Only Light, a collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press, and of the memoirs Planet of the Blind and Eavesdropping.  He holds a dual appointment at the University of Iowa where he teaches courses in creative nonfiction in the Department of English and serves as a public humanities scholar in the College of Medicine.  He speaks widely on diversity, disability, education, and public policy.  His essays and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, and Partisan Review.  He is currently working on a collection of prose poems for Copper Canyon Press entitled Mornings With Borges as well as a collection of political poems about disability.


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