Jean Kahler was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and a BA in theatre with a minor in women’s studies from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jean’s career experience includes work at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and with the Columbia University School of Social Work, and she teaches writing at Purchase College, State University of New York. Her publications include “So You Want To Be A Drag King” in Lumina, and a book on the ruins of Staten Island, with photographs by Jessica Rowe, forthcoming from Furnace Press. Jean wrote two pieces for Submerged: “Learning to Speak New Orleans,” an essay about the experience of visiting New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, and “One Braid,” an essay on hair as a reminder of mortality.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin