Courtney Kersten

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Courtney Kersten is an essayist, educator, and author of Daughter in Retrograde (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Courtney’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Her essays have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s 2018 Annie Dillard Award in Nonfiction, the Southern Indiana Review’s 2019 Mary C. Mohr Award in Nonfiction, Crazyhorse’s 2022 Nonfiction Award, and been listed as “notable” in the 2020 and 2021 Best American Essays series. Her work has also garnered her a Fulbright Fellowship to Riga, Latvia. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho and her Ph.D. in Literature with an emphasis in Creative/Critical Writing and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2020*

Best American Essays 2021*

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