Keetje Kuipers earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and M.F.A. at University of Oregon. She was 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, The Southeast Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She teaches at University of Montana and is an incoming Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.