Literary Journalism

KATHA POLLITT is a poet, essayist, and columnist/blogger for The Nation.  She is the author of four collections of essays including Virginity or Death! and Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time, and a new collection of personal essays, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories.   The title essay from that collection was chosen for Best American Essays 2003.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she has receive two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim fellowship.