Kami Westhoff lives in the Pacific Northwest where she teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Sleepwalker, winner of the Minerva Rising Dare to Be Contest; Your Body a Bullet, co-written with Elizabeth Vignali; and Cloud-bound, forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry and prose has been published in journals including Booth, Carve, Hippocampus, Fugue, Passages North, Redivider, Waxwing and West Branch.
Poetic and corporeal, The Criteria is a collection steeped in
brutality and resilience. Westhoff's prose is as deeply unsettling
as it is starkly beautiful-these stories are complex, haunting, and
lush.-Kimberly King Parsons
The Criteria is about the complicated work of caring (and sometimes
failing to care)-for mothers, for children, for the planet--and the
book is itself an act of care. Kami Westhoff welcomes her reader
with generosity into quiet, secret spaces of love, longing, pain
and, ultimately, connection. -Ramona Ausubel, author of Awayland
and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
The world of Kami Westhoff's stories is skewed from ours - more
visceral, brutal, harder - but also oddly quieter. That the women
and children and men there survive what they do is, I guess, a
testament to their resilience. But whatever it is, it's a warning
to us to rein in our easy violence, to try to remember love.
-Rebecca Brown, author of You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe
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