Kathryn Savage | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Kathryn Savage

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Portrait of Kathryn Savage

Faculty

Title
Assistant Professor
Education
MFA, Bennington College
MFA, University of Minnesota
BA, New School University

Kathryn Savage’s Groundglass: An Essay (Coffee House Press), explores topics of environmental justice and links between pollution and public health. Groundglass was named a best read of the year by the Sydney Morning Herald, a Yale Review Favorite Cultural Artifact, and was showcased in Orion Magazine, Lit Hub, and selected by EcoLit Books as a Best Environmental Book of 2022. Other writing has recently appeared in American Short Fiction, BOMB Magazine, Ecotone, Guernica, VQR, and she is a frequent book review contributor to World Literature Today.

She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has previously taught English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and served as a creative nonfiction mentor in the Augsburg University  low-residency MFA program and volunteered with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota. Her recent research and teaching interests include intersectional feminist responses to climate crisis, narrative medicine, and socially engaged interdisciplinary collaborations.