christopher kuhl

Christopher Kuhl was born in upstate (very upstate) New York, to an Estonian mother who, along with her mother, survived the Holocaust, and an all-around American boy of Italian-German parentage.  Christopher went to school at SUNY Potsdam, earning degrees in philosophy and music composition; Bowling Green State University, where she earned two masters, one in music composition and one in music history; and Ohio University, where she took a Ph.D in the interdisciplinary arts.  She then taught music theory and history at Mississippi University for Women, before coming to Illinois, where she taught English and creative writing at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 1987-2004. She was Poet-in-Residence several times at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Indiana, and has taught workshops for younger students in Illinois and New York. She no longer teaches or holds a paying job due to a psychiatric disability.

She is published in the Spring 2006 issues of Prairie Schooner and the Easter 2006 Anglican Digest. She has also just finished two books of hybrid writing:  Memoirs of Lewis County:  Blood and Bone, River and Stone, and Mom and Me, for which she is currently searching a publisher.  The writings appearing in ensemble:  hybrid writing by women are from those two books. She lives in North Aurora, IL, where, freed from the work-a-day world, she reads and writes prolifically, voraciously, and freely.