Kaethe Schwehn teaches first-year writing and various creative writing courses. Schwehn is the author of the novels The Gospel of Salome and The Rending and the Nest.  Her first book, Tailings: A Memoir, won the 2015 Minnesota Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and her chapbook of poems, Tanka & Me, was selected for the Mineral Point Chapbook Series.  She is also the co-editor of Claiming Our Callings, a collection of essay about vocation written by St. Olaf faculty members. In addition to holding MFAs from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Montana, Schwehn has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, a Minnesota Arts Board Grant, and a Loft Mentor Series Award.