Background
Kirsten Bakis was born in 1967 in Switzerland.
Kirsten Bakis was born in 1967 in Switzerland.
Bakis graduated from New York University in 1990. She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America.
Kirsten has taught at Hampshire College and was a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2005. She spends her spare time on writing.
Kirsten is currently living in Croton-on-Hudson, New York with her husband, their two children, and two dogs, and is at work on her second novel.