Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Judith Kitchen's essays are lyrical and affecting meditations on place—those places to which we go back and the bittersweet ones to which we can never return. A Pushcart-prize winning writer and editor, Kitchen writes crystalline prose about the human connection to both built and natural environments. Blended with intelligent speculation on national history and literary legacy, these exquisite pieces contain tender and lucidly detailed homage's to Fred Astaire's hands, Kitchen's aging father, the color blue, and familiar and dreamed-about places.

"Judith Kitchen is a gifted writer of immense humanity, grace, and depth. Travel with her, trusting where she takes you. These essays gleam with wisdom and innate poetry. Whether a trail spins out in widening spirals or penetrates deep layers of memory, readers are nourished by the journey—lo, uplifted!—and gratefully changed."—Naomi Shihab Nye

Author City: PORT TOWNSEND, WA USA

Judith Kitchen is the award-winning author of several works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has won the Lillian Fairchild Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the S. Mariella Gable Fiction Prize. She has served as judge for the AWP Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize in poetry, the Oregon Book Award, and the Bush Foundation fellowships, among others. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Kitchen lives in Port Townsend, Washington, and serves on the faculty and as codirector of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

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