Kurt Caswell
Kurt Caswell was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in the Cascade Range in Oregon. He has 
worked as a teacher in Hokkaido, Japan, on the Navajo Reservation, and at schools in Arizona, California, and Wyoming. A graduate of both the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and the Bennington College Writing Seminars, his work has earned two Pushcart nominations, the Lucy Grealy Memorial Scholarship, a fellowship at Fishtrap writers’ conference, and at the MacDowell Colony. Caswell is the author of two books: An Inside Passage (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), which won the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize, and a Texas Tech University President’s Book Award; and In the Sun´s House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation (Trinity University Press, 2009). He is the lead editor of a book of nature essays, To Everything on Earth (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). He is associate professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.