Caitlin Thornbrugh
Writer, educator, Kansas native.
Writing
Ahuactal Agovago Avocado: The Corrupt Alligator Pear, Parcel
Friends with the Band, Honest Noise
The First Year: Beecher's, Portal Del Sol
Photographs, The Phnom Penh Post
Projects
WILDERNESS HEALS
WISE WOMEN BLOG
Twice a month, I'll be posting brief interviews of badass women over 50. Coming soon!
BIO
Caitlin Thornbrugh is a writer and Kansas City native. While writing primarily nonfiction, she likes to explore genre boundaries and write along the edges of poetry and fiction.
Her nonfiction has appeared in Honest Noise, Portal del Sol, and Parcel Literary Journal. Her piece, “Ahuacatl Agovago, Avocado: The Corrupt Alligator Pear” was a 2014 Notable Best American Essay.
She has received fellowships and grants from The Lambda Literary Foundation and The Dickinson House-Belgium.
In 2014, she spent a year as an international teaching fellow for Princeton in Asia at The University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. She has an MFA from the University of Kansas where she was a founding editorial board member of Beecher’s Literary Magazine.
Currently in Boston, she teaches for Northeastern University’s Writing Program. Since moving to New England, one of her favorite organizations to volunteer with is the Wilderness Heals-Elizabeth Stone pledge hike. Her recent writing projects include a nonfiction piece exploring the disputed Owyhee Canyonlands in Eastern Oregon.
Community
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Beecher's: literary magazine
Michael Holtz: journalist
Allison Moon: writer, sex educator
Solei: visual artist, musician
John Shakespear: writer, musician
July Westhale: writer
Sam Bell: writer, educator
Megan Kaminski: writer, poet, educator
Elizabeth Anderson: writer, indie bookseller
Heidi Raak: editor, indie bookseller
Eloise Klein Healy: editor, writer, poet
Kelly Barth: writer, Kansan
Andrea Lawlor: writer, educator
Charles Stephens: writer, editor, activist
Lauren Keith: writer, traveler, blogger