Author Description

<p>Kurt Olsson's first collection of poetry, What Kills What Kills Us, won the Gerald Cable Book Award. Sandra Meeks characterizes Olsson's book as both "honest and searching." She writes, "Unmired by nostalgia, these poems ultimately call us not to romanticized memory but to wakefulness." What Kills What Kills Us went on to win the Towson University Prize for Literature, for the best book written by a Maryland author in the previous year, and the Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Poetry Book. Olsson's poems have appeared widely in such publications as Poetry, FIELD, Southern Review, The New Republic, Gettysburg Review, and many others.</p>