Artist Bio

Kathy Pfeiffer is a creative writer, bookmaker, 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 has appeared in The Sun magazine, Bateau, and the Bear River Review. Her artist books have been displayed at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center and the Paint Creek Center for the Arts. In scholarship like Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank, she examines interracial friendship, literary ambition, and devastating betrayal. Kathy Pfeiffer runs the Oak Tree Book Arts studio and she teaches English and Creative Writing at Oakland University.