Julia Kasdorf

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Full Name	Julia Kasdorf
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1962(1962-12-06)
Age	62
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Julia Kasdorf Biography

Julia Kasdorf is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on December 6, 1962 in Pennsylvania, United States. Poet, whose work includes Eve’s Striptease and Sleeping Preacher. Aside from being an essayist, she released a collection in 2009 entitled”The Body and the Book: Writing the Mennonite Life.

The actress along with She and Sylvia Plath both grew up in the northeastern United States. both were born in the Northeastern United States.

Spicher Kasdorf began to write poetry seriously during her high school years and credits the Poets in the Schools program for nurturing her interest in writing. Her first published poem appeared in 1977 in Images Remembered II, an anthology of the Poets-in-the-Schools Program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She also wrote in workshops at Summer Happening ’79 and under Deborah Burnham and H. L. Van Brunt at Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1980. In 1981, she won the Scholastic Writing Awards with work that was then published in Literary Cavalcade. While a student at Goshen College she also had poems published in With, Builder, Christian Living, and the college publications Record and Broadside.

Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Julia Spicher grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh near Irwin, Westmoreland County. Her parents were Mennonites born in Big Valley, Pennsylvania who chose to leave their rural community in central Pennsylvania to work in an urban setting. Spicher attended Goshen College, in Goshen, Indiana, but completed her B.A. and Ph.D. at New York University. As a student at Goshen College, Spicher visited China in the autumn of 1982 for the Study-Service Trimester at Sichuan Teachers College. She published Moss Lotus, a chapbook of poetry inspired by her experiences in China, as a sophomore English major at Goshen in 1983. She earned her B.A., M.A. in creative writing, and Ph.D. from New York University (1997), where she studied with poet Yehuda Amichai, among others. Her Ph.D. dissertation, Fixing tradition: The cultural work of Joseph W. Yoder and his relationship with the Amish community of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, was supervised by Gordon M. Pradl.

She was born in the Mennonite family and grew up within the suburban areas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Julia Kasdorf Net Worth

Julia Kasdorf is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Julia Kasdorf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at New York University and Goshen College. She was awarded the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for Sleeping Preacher, her debut work.

She won her Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2004.

Julia Mae Spicher Kasdorf (born December 6, 1962) is an American poet.

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Julia Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Julia Kasdorf celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

Top Facts about Julia Kasdorf

1. Julia Kasdorf is an American poet born in 1962.
2. She has published four poetry collections and a memoir.
3. Kasdorf’s work explores themes of family, faith, and rural life.
4. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2009.
5. Kasdorf teaches creative writing at Pennsylvania State University.
6. Her poem “What I Learned from My Mother” is widely anthologized.
7. Kasdorf was raised in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania.
8. She earned her BA from Goshen College and her MFA from New York University.
9. Kasdorf has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
10. Her memoir, “The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life,” was published in 2001.