Lines of Departure and Return

Penn State scholar Julia Kasdor has drawn on her childhood memories and introduced many readers to the intertwined culture and landscape of her parents' Mennonite childhoods through her poetry and non-fiction. Associate professor of English and director of the MFA writing program. she discusses the evolution of her writing and literary identity in the Research Penn State feature at: http://www.rps.psu.edu/word/kasdorf/discussion.html