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Kat Duff

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Kat Duff is the author of The Alchemy of Illness (Pantheon, 1993) and The Secret Life of Sleep (Beyond Words and Oneworld, 2014).

Born and raised in Minnesota, Duff left the Midwest to get her BA at Hampshire College, where she was able to pursue a multi-disciplinary course of study. She went on to work as a printer and publisher at Mother Jones Press in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Red River Women’s Press in Austin, Texas, before pursuing her MA in Counseling and Education at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1992, Duff won 1st place for Nonfiction in the Taos Review Literary Contest for her essay, “Towards an Ecology of Illness,” which she later expanded into her award-winning first book, The Alchemy of Illness. Since then, she has published essays in a variety of print and online publications while making her living as a mental health counselor and child forensic interviewer in Taos, NM.

Duff writes at the intersection of the natural world and the imagination, as it occurs in the life of our bodies. Whether she is discussing illness, scars, or sleep, Duff illuminates common, intimate experiences that are often overlooked.

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