Writing the Journey: June 1999

Kathleen Coskran

Kathleen Coskran (Ethiopia, 1965-1967) grew up in Marietta, Georgia and taught English and math in Addis Ababa and Dilla, Ethiopia. She met her husband, Chuck, on a summer vaccination project in western Ethiopia, and spent two years in Kenya where he was on Peace Corps staff. Kathleen has taught fiction writing at the University of Minnesota and Hamline University and is currently the principal of Lake Country School in Minneapolis. In 1988 her collection of short stories, The High Price of Everything , won a Minnesota Book Award and she has received numerous other awards including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the co-editor (with C.W. Truesdale) of Tanzania on Tuesday: Writings by American Women Abroad. A mother of a daughter, two sons, and two foster sons from Ethiopia, she currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband.

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