Kate Vieira is the Susan J. Cellmer distinguished professor of literacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Latvia) and Fulbright scholar (Colombia), and a single mom, with literary essays in Guernica, The Sun, Tin House, Writing on the Edge, Nowhere: A Travel Magazine, and First-Person Singular. Her literary work has won the Wisconsin Writers Kay W. Levin short creative nonfiction award, the Sustainable Arts award, and the Donald Murray award for creative nonfiction. She is also the author of two award-winning scholarly monographs on language and migration, and her collaborative bilingual book on poetry and peace in communities impacted by armed conflict will be out soon. She is completing a memoir called Single in Five Languages that tells the story of her failed relationships via her obsession with and expertise in language and culture.
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