Kaethe Schwehn holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the coeditor of Claiming Our Callings: Toward a New Understanding of Vocation in the Liberal Arts (2014). Schwehn has been the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and a Loft Mentor Series award. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous journals. She teaches at St. Olaf College and lives in Northfield, Minnesota, with her husband and two children.
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual
and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely,
and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an
exquisite book.
--Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer Schwehn's Tailings,
is, like all of my favorite contemporary nonfiction,
uncategorizable--part memoir, part spiritual reflection, part
reportage. Brilliant in all of its guises, Tailings only makes me
want to read more by Kaethe Schwehn. She writes with fierce
intelligence and luminous clarity on all of her subjects: loss,
grace, this very particular village, and the hard work of renewal.
Tailings is a beautiful and original book by a remarkable
writer.
--Rene Steinke, author ofFriendswood Already by the second chapter,
this is a book hard to lay aside. Schwehn's prose is liquid and
intelligent. It catches your interest immediately and swings you
from paragraph to paragraph and chapter to chapter. Her
observations never stand still but sweep you forward into her
story/memoir. She is a genuine artist.
--Walter Wangerin Jr., author of Ragman--and Other Cries of Faith
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