About this Event
Written with a poet’s uncanny knack for the luminous detail, Between the Light and Me is a riveting portrait of modern spiritual hunger. Just one month before September 11, Kathleen Kilcup enlisted in the US Army with all the fervent idealism of an untested teenager. Between the Light and Me is her unflinching account of encountering violence―both in the military and beyond―and a desperate, sometimes ill-conceived, search for God that sustained her through addiction and trauma on the long road to true freedom.
Kathleen Kilcup spent five years serving in the US Army as a Russian linguist. She holds an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside and an MA in religion and arts from Yale. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House, Image, Salon, Commonweal, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She writes The Mess on Substack and lives with her husband and children in Oklahoma City. She is the author of poetry chapbook, Rough Hymns, and Between the Light and Me: A Memoir of Beauty and Violence.
Kelly Foster Lundquist is the author of Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, winner of the 2026 Minnesota Book Award in Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Her work can be found in People Magazine, the Times of London, the Huffington Post, and Writer’s Digest, among other places. Originally from Mississippi, she now teaches writing in Minnesota. Dan Savage recently told her on the air that she was “absolutely delightful company” and that Beard was an “incredibly moving tour-de-force” and those are both things she likes to brag about now.
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