Kristen Case

Kristen Case is the author of the critical study American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe . Her first poetry collection, Little Arias , won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, Principles of Economics , won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments and director of Thoreau's Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau . She teaches at the...See more

Kristen Case is the author of the critical study American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe . Her first poetry collection, Little Arias , won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, Principles of Economics , won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments and director of Thoreau's Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau . She teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is director of the New Commons Project, a public humanities initiative sponsored by the Mellon foundation. She lives in Temple, Maine. See less