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  • Video Reading Check out the literary magazine Spaces, and my video reading of "Walking the Ground at Sand Creek."
    Posted Mar 17, 2013, 5:24 AM by Kurt Caswell
  • New work published "Death in Seville" is now out in the fall 2012/spring 2013 issue of American Literary Review.
    Posted Feb 27, 2013, 6:31 AM by Kurt Caswell
  • New Work Published Look for "A Short Walk in Anasazi Country" in the inaugural issue of Earthlines, and "Death in Seville" in the fall 2012/spring 2013 issue of the American Literary Review. "Looking Across the Red River, Reaching Over the Plains" appears in the current issue of ISLE.
    Posted Feb 27, 2013, 6:29 AM by Kurt Caswell
  • Teaching at Vermont College of Fine Arts I will be teaching the fall 2011 semester in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Looking forward to it!
    Posted May 29, 2011, 5:11 AM by Kurt Caswell
  • Two New Essays Published Look for "Ah, Venice, Again" in Slab, and "Saying Goodbye to Kuma" in Hawk & Handsaw.
    Posted May 10, 2011, 8:11 PM by Kurt Caswell
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"In the Sun’s House gathers together so much of the world that lies remote, to our eyes and often our hearts—the Navajo nation, the desert Southwest, the elusive joys of the classroom, the forces that both shape identity and erode it, the lonely isolation that accompanies wanderlust, the not always apparent journey toward what it is we most desire from life. There’s a quiet, sometimes wind-bitten loveliness in Caswell’s seductive voice that builds triumphantly to a level of uplifting grace."

Bob Shacochis, National Book Award–winning author of Easy in the Islands and The Immaculate Invasion



"An exquisitely written, consistently thoughtful, and engaging work . . . Its scrupulous personal honesty and research into the Navajos combine to produce a rich literary experience, as engrossing as a novel yet buoyed by the sense of a reliable observer bearing witness to what actually happened."