BIOGRAPHY
Kassi Underwood's essays, book reviews, and author interviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Publishers Weekly, and The Days of Yore, among other publications. A native Kentuckian born in 1984, she drank a lot of whiskey and drove a great many pickup trucks before moving to Vermont to study writing and costume design. Equipped with a B.A., she tipped her clunker southbound toward Austin, Texas to bust fraud. She wrote for various anti-fraud publications, edited two books of case studies about white-collar crime, served as a contributing editor for Fraud Magazine, and spent long hours eating tacos, dancing poorly to live music, and getting sunburned at Barton Springs. She is an M.F.A. candidate in literary nonfiction at Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow in the Undergraduate Writing Program and continues to teach creative writing. As an ambassador for the Pro-Voice movement, she recently spoke on a Planned Parenthood panel called "Demystifying Abortion." Currently working on a memoir about her quest for post-abortion therapies and cultural rituals, she lives in New York City with her partner, Travis, and their Beagle named Bug.
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