Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

Contact

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn teaches in the University of Chicago Creative Writing Program. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Colorado Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and swamp pink, and was listed as notable in Best American Essays.

Articles by Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

‘Forever Chemicals,’ Religion, and Family Tragedy in Texas

PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.

by Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn