Kass Fleisher Mailing Address: Stevenson Hall 301E Department of English 4240 Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4240 County: Mclean Web site Genre: experimental prose/creative non-fiction

Periodical Publications:

Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Bombay Gin, Postmodern Culture, Z Magazine, American Book Review, electronic book review, and other journals

Nieve Roja 9
(Summer 2002) "Composition as Explanation of 137 Crop Circles."

electronic book review (see ebr riPostes)

(Summer 2001) "Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: History as Knowledge, Knowledge as Activism." With Joe Amato. For teachers ANDstudents.

Exquisite Corpse 9
(May 2001) "Speculum of an Older Cunt." Review of Igna Muscio's Cunt: A Declaration of Independence.

Postmodern Culture 10.1
(1999) "Of Tea Parties, Poverty Tours, and Tammany Pow-wows; or, How Mr. Clinton Distanced Us All from Pine Ridge." Review of Philip Deloria's Playing Indian.

time sense 1.2
(1998) "Disorder Determined by Necessity: Learning to Order (Miss Stein's Grave) Plots in Educational Biography (A Double- Texted Performance-Paper)." Hypertext essay.

ebr 9
(1998) "Fucked by the Master's Plot: Miss Collins and Mr. Sawyer Celebrate the American Dream." Essay on narrative theory and the public domain.

ebr 7
(1998) "'Oh say can you see it's all a show' ... A Review-Enactment." Review of Campaign America 96: The View from the Couch, by William O'Rourke.

ebr 6
(1997) "Joanna Russ for Beginners." Review of To Write Like a Woman.

Book Publications

• The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History -- SUNY Press, 2004

Forthcoming Publications:

• Accidental Species: A Reproduction -- Chax Press, forthcoming 2005

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Fiction has been awarded annual prizes from The Dickinson Review and Plainswoman. Her screenplays (with Joe Amato), BEAR RIVER and GOOD FENCES, achieved semi-final status in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project fellowship competition (Paramount Pictures) in 2003.

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

• Illinois State University, Assistant Professor, English, 2003-present

Preferred Audience:

• No preferred audience

Willing to travel:

• Yes