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Chrissy Kolaya is a poet and fiction writer, author of Charmed Particles: a novel and two books of poems: Any Anxious Body and Other Possible Lives (forthcoming fall 2019). Her work has been included in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction (Norton), Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed Editions), and Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems, as well as in a number of literary journals.

She has received a Norman Mailer Writers Colony summer scholarship, an Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies fellowship, a Loft Mentor Series Award in Poetry, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Lake Region Arts Council, and the University of Minnesota. As one of the co-founders of the Prairie Gate Literary Festival, she worked to develop
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Charmed Particles

3.97 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Any Anxious Body

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Other Possible Lives

4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019
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Teaching at the Johann Fust Library

Just back from a beautiful and inspiring weekend working with these brave, adventurous creative writers at the Johann Fust Library.

Thank you forever to Bobbie Marquis, Julianne Greenberg, Nan Doyal, and the foundation board for making this weekend together possible. So much powerful work started at this table—can’t wait to see where it all leads!

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