Kathryn Savage

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. Her writing about contemporary art and literature appears in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and World Literature Today. Recent research and teaching interests include ecopoetics and medical humanities, and she has guest lectured on these topics at The Mayo Clinic Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine and The University of Minnesota Medical School Center for the Art of Medicine. Her poetry, nonfiction, and fiction appear in the pages of Ecotone, Guernica, American Short Fiction, and VQR. Recipient of awards, grants, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship, she received a 2025 McKnight Fellowship in Writing selected by Valeria Luiselli to complete her next project, a novel. With an MFA in fiction from Bennington College and a second MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota, she is associate professor and coordinator of the creative writing BFA at MCAD.