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Kirsten Bakis (born 1968 Switzerland) is an American novelist.[1]

Kirsten Bakis
Born1968 (age 5354)
Alma materNew York University
OccupationNovelist
Awards
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
    1997 Lives of the Monster Dogs
  • Whiting Award in Fiction
    2004

Biography


Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990. She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America.

She published her first novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs, in 1997.[2] In 2017, the novel was reissued.[2][3]

She has taught at Hampshire College and was a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2005. She is currently living in Croton-on-Hudson, New York with her husband, their two children, and two dogs, and is at work on her second novel.


Critical reception


Lives of the Monster Dogs received mostly positive reviews. Critics praised it for its originality, while also noting some of its drawbacks as science fiction.[4] Following the 2017 reissue, Jeff Vandermeer of The Atlantic writes, "20 years later, as it gets a much-deserved reissue, Lives of the Monster Dogs feels undeniably like a classic."[2] Tobias Carroll of Tor.com writes in 2017, "The novel opens with a nearly perfect first line: "In the years since the monster dogs were here with us, in New York, I’ve often been asked to write something about the time I spent with them.""[5] Sharona Lin of Guernica writes in 2020, "It’s a wild and fantastical tale with all the hallmarks of a gothic classic: there’s a mad Prussian scientist, a secretive village, an existential crisis, a pondering of what it truly means to be human."[3]


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References


  1. Burt, Daniel S., ed. (c. 2004). The Chronology of American Literature. Houghton Mifflin. p. 716. ISBN 0-618-16821-4. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
  2. Vandermeer, Jeff (May 9, 2017). "When Talking Canines Took Over New York". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. Lin, Sharona (March 11, 2020). "Ruff Reckoning". Guernica. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  4. "Kirsten Bakis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Web. 10 June 2014.
  5. Carroll, Tobias (May 15, 2017). "The Monstrous and the Tragic: Kirsten Bakis's Lives of the Monster Dogs". Tor.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.






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