Cathryn Klusmeier

Cathryn Klusmeier is a writer living and working in Sitka, Alaska. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She also holds a master’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford, where her work focused on Alzheimer’s and other non-communicable diseases.

Cathryn is the recipient of a 2021 Pushcart Prize, the winner of the 2018 MIT Media Lab’s Resisting Reduction Essay Competition, the winner of the 2018 Crazyhorse Creative Nonfiction Prize, and author in the book Against Reduction: Designing a Human Future with Machines. She has twice been a notable essay in The Best American Essays series and has received fellowships and recognition from the University of Oxford, the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the Sitka Fellows Artist Residency, Agni Literary Journal, the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, Narrative Magazine’s “30 Below 30”contest, Hunger Mountain’s Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the Southampton Review’s Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. In her spare time Cathryn loves hiking, running, fishing, drawing, and living in Southeast Alaska. 

For more information visit Cathryn's website here.

Cathryn will be teaching Writing Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Foundations of Fiction Writing at Middle School Camp.