Artist Bio

Kathy Pfeiffer is 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. Pfeiffer’s creative nonfiction, which has appeared in The Sun magazine, Bateau, and the Bear River Review, ponders difficult situations like adultery and stepmotherhood. Her most recent scholarly book is Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank, an examination of interracial friendship, literary ambition, and devastating betrayal. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Oakland University.