A writer who reads. A reader who writes.
Kathy*Writes is the website of Kathleen Pfeiffer, an essayist, memoirist, and literary critic living in Rochester Hills, Michigan. A 2012 Kresge Artist Fellow, she won the 2018 Michigan Writers Chapbook Contest with her memoir Ink. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Oakland University.
Ink: A Memoir
If you read it, it will stick in your mind for a good while, precisely because it is not bloated, self-indulgent, loaded with attitudinizing. It has an arc you can hold in your imagination and rotate, thinking about it from different angles.
Click here to learn about Kathy’s publications in Memoir and Essay
Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank
As Kathleen Pfeiffer demonstrates in this fascinating new collection, letters also forge and record intimacy, serve as conduits for aesthetic discovery, and disclose moments of vulnerability when candor trumps the imperative to snip and shape.
— Mark Whalan, author of Race, Manhood and Modernism in America