Kristen Case

<b>Kristen Case</b> is the author of the critical study <i>American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe</i>. Her first poetry collection, <i>Little Arias</i>, won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, <i>Principles of Economics</i>, won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of <i>Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments</i> and director of <i>Thoreau’ s Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau</i>. She teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is director of the New Commons Project, a public humanities initiative sponsored by the Mellon foundation. She lives in Temple, Maine.