Sharon Kunde

Sharon Kunde earned her PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. Her stories and poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Saltfront, WomenArts Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Midwestern Gothic, and other journals, and her poetry chapbook Year of the Sasquatch is forthcoming with Dancing Girl Press. Her first book project, Natural Reading: Race, Place, and Literary Practice from Douglass to Ransom, centers on the racial politics of reading and representing nature in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. She blogs at throughhike.wordpress.com and teaches at The International School of Los Angeles.