Stephen Kuusisto
Current Fellow
Fellow: Awarded 2021
Field of Study: Poetry
Competition: US & Canada
Website: http://stephenkuusisto.com
Stephen Kuusisto holds a University Professorship at Syracuse and is the author of the memoirs Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey; Planet of the Blind (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”) and Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and of the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light; Letters to Borges; and Old Horse, What is to Be Done? He travels and lectures widely on human rights, disability, literature, and the advantages of guide dogs and human-animal relationships.
Photo Credit: Michael Meteyer