Kari Pilgrim is a fiction writer, editor, and academic interested in ecocriticism. Her fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Del Sol Review, and Brooklyn Review, and her nonfiction in journals including Environmental Humanities, Ethics and the Environment, and Society and Animals. Her fiction received the SLS Graywolf Prize for an excerpt and was shortlisted for the International 3 Day Novel Contest. She is recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship in Fiction from Brooklyn College.

 

At various times in her life, she trekked the SilkRoad, hostessed in clubs in Tokyo and Taipei, packaged fish in Alaska, slept under the stars by the Arabian Sea, became certified in permaculture design, and planted 1,000 trees on an off-the-grid homestead.

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She has an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, a PhD in English from Binghamton University, and is an associate professor of cultural studies and writing at SUNY Empire State College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and a very cute shihtzu.

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