Cathryn Klusmeier’s writing has appeared in Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, AGNI, Connotations: The Island Institute Journal, and The Journal of Design and Science. She was awarded the 2016 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize, won the 2018 MIT Media Lab’s “Resisting Reduction” essay contest, and was runner-up for the 2019 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. A graduate of the University of Oxford with a master’s degree in medical anthropology, she lives in Sitka, Alaska, where she works as a commercial salmon fisherman. (updated 4/2020)

Klusmeier’s essay “Gutted” (AGNI 91) received a Pushcart Prize and will be reprinted in the 2022 anthology.