Kathleen Norris (poet)

Kathleen Norris ( born July 27, 1947 in Washington DC, USA) is an American author and poet.

Life

As a child, Norris moved with her parents to Hawaii, where she graduated from Punahou School, before she went to Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont in New England. After graduating from the School of Art in 1969, she went as a caretaker of the art collection of the Academy of American Poets in New York City, where she in 1971 her first volume of poetry, Falling Off published.

In 1974, Norris inherited in South Dakota farm of her grandparents in Lemmon. She moved with her husband in the 1000 people village, participated in church life and plunged into the living conditions in the wide prairie. The crimping there in 1993, she described in her book Dakota: A Spritual Geography. Later she was Benediktineroblate in an Abbey in Richardton (North Dakota) and made several extended stays in the Saint John 's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.

In recent years, Norris has written several books on spirituality and religion. Since the death of her husband in 2003, she lives Jahare back to Hawai'i and returns from time to time for lecture tours in the 48 mainland states of the USA back. She writes regularly for Christian magazines, including for The Christian Century from Chicago, Illinois.

Publications

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• Born in 1947
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