Dale M. Kushner

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<DIV><B>Dale M. Kushner</B> graduated the Vermont College MFA Program in Creative Writing, and founded The Writer's Place, a literary center in Madison, Wisconsin. Ms. Kushner is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in the Literary Arts, a fellowship at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. As well, she was a participant with other leading writers in the recent Fetzer Institute's first writers' retreat on compassion and forgiveness. Her work has been widely published in literary journals including <I>IMAGE, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, Witness, Fifth Wednesday</I>, and elsewhere. Her most recent poetry book <I>More Alive Than Lions Roaring</I> was a finalist for The May Swenson Poetry Award at Utah State Press, The Prairie Schooner Book Competition, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize at University of Utah Press, and The Tupelo Prize. <br><br> Ms. Kushner has been a long-time investigator of the intersection between writing and spiritual life. She is currently on the faculty of The Assisi Institute in Brattleboro, VT, a teaching center that serves as an international focus point for leading thinkers and groundbreaking conversation on the work of C.G. Jung and the relationship between psyche and matter. <br><br> She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family and dog, Carmelita. <I>The Conditions of Love</I> is her first novel.</DIV>