Authors and Illustrators Database

Janet Kauffman

Born: 06/10/1945  Lancaster, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Chester and Thelma Kauffman
Address(es):
Permanent:
603C Pray-Harrold Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Permanent:
14671 Cadmus Rd
Hudson, MI 49247
Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 734-487-2296
Website: http://www.janetkauffman.com
Phone: 517-448-4973

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
oh corporeal
- This collection of poems focuses on a father's struggle with Alzheimer's dementia, drawing on many of his own words. 		Poetry Adult Online: Coldwater Press 2011
Trespassing : dirt stories & field notes
- Half stories, half essays on the factory farm crisis in her watershed. 		Fiction Adult Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press 2008
Five on Fiction Poetry Adult Providence, R.I : Burning Deck Press 2004
Rot Fiction Adult Kalamazoo, MI : New Issues/Western Michigan University 2001
Characters on the Loose : Stories
- Short Stories 		Fiction Adult Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press 1997
Body in Four Parts Fiction Adult Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press 1993
Obscene Gestures for Women : Stories
- Short Stories 		Fiction Adult New York : Knopf 1989
Where the World Is Poetry Montparnasse Editions 1988
Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems From the Third Coast
- Anthology 		Poetry Adult Wayne State University 1988
Collaborators
- Long tone poem, a dreamlike montage of images of the exchanges of mind that take place between members of a family 		Fiction Adult New York : Knopf 1986
Places in the World a Woman Could Walk : Stories
- Short Stories 		Fiction Adult New York : Knopf 1984
The Weather Book Poetry Adult Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press 1981
Writing Home
- With Jerome J. McGann ; pictures by Mary Bahr and Janet Kauffman 		Poetry Adult Hudson, MI : Coldwater Press 1978
In The Third Coast: Contemporary Poetry Poetry Adult Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press 1976
- In Southern Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Antaeus, New Yorker, others. Poetry Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Illustrator

Awards:

Name Date
Michigan Arts Award 1997
Michigan Author Award 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1984
Michigan Council for the Arts 1984-1987
Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1983-1985

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd. ed. 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 117 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 43, 84 		1986-2000
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 42 1982

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Chicago Chicago, IL 1972
Master of Arts (M.A.) University of Chicago Chicago, IL 1968
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Juniata College Huntingdon, PA 1967

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1988
Visiting Associate Professor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1984-1985
Professor Jackson Community College Jackson, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1976

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