Katherine Dykstra
Katherine Dykstra's essays have been published in or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Brain Child, Crab Orchard Review and Poets and Writers. She won third place in the 2013 Real Simple Life Lessons essay contest and first place in the 2012 Waterman Fund essay contest. She was one of two finalists for Crab Orchard Review's 2014 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. A nonfiction editor at Guernica, she is at work on a memoir.
Reading List
Follow the Wind
They found the hiker in the sulfur mine the week before Parker and I arrived. He had been slumped against the wall of the cave, perfectly preserved — clothes intact, hair in place — mummified by the same yellow fumes …