EHFOP Announces Kate Sjostrom as the Writer in Residence for the 2024-2025 Term

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is pleased to announce that Kate Sjostrom will serve as the Foundation’s newest Writer-in-Residence (WIR). During her 2024-2025 term, Kate will assist in advancing the foundation’s mission supporting the development of our educational programming and mentorship of our student scholarship recipients. She will also enjoy the opportunity to continue her work in the dedicated writing space of the Hemingway Birthplace Museum.

 Dr. Sjostrom is a writer and teacher educator based in Oak Park, IL. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in RHINO, Southern Poetry Review, English Journal, and elsewhere, and she regularly publishes and presents on writing education. Her co-edited collection, Unsettling Education, won a 2021 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education.

 “The WIR program is an essential part of fulfilling our mission,” Keith Strom, Foundation Executive Director, said. “We are tremendously grateful to have Kate join our team and believe her passionate support of creative writing is a great fit for us as a literary educational organization.”

 Kate holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as an MEd and PhD in English Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she now teaches writing and writing pedagogy. She is currently at work on her first novel which she will continue within the WIR writing space.

 “As a reader, writer, and teacher, I appreciate Hemingway’s work for its content and craft, for its stimulation of important conversations and its artful concision,” Sjostrom said. “I am excited to write in a place so rich in literary history and to work with the Hemingway Foundation on extending educational outreach.”