Lightning Falls in Love

Kasischke writes poetry, novels, and YA novels Her novel The Life Before Her Eyeswas made into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood She has a deep interest in fairy tales, and is especially inspired by Yeats¿s renditions of Irish folk tales.Where Now: New and Selected (Copper Canyon Press) was Longlisted for National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in ChainsPrevious Kasischke books by Copper Canyon were well-reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Review, and received numerous ¿Best Book of the Year¿ accolades.Has lived and worked in Michigan her entire life, and many of her poems draw from the suburban landscape of the Midwest.