Katie Karnehm-Esh

Katie Karnehm-Esh is Associate Professor of Writing and English at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an emphasis in creative nonfiction and poetry. She is working on a memoir of living and studying abroad in Europe. When she’s not writing essays or traveling, she’s walking her dogs and teaching yoga.

EssayJanuary 4, 2017

How the light gets in

By Katie Karnehm-Esh

I. I drive south from Fort Wayne—Vera Bradley, Fried chicken, Huggy Bear Motel, Pilot Gas—while the radio stations fade, one by one, into sermons…

EssayJuly 27, 2016

Holy Week in Uganda

By Katie Karnehm-Esh

Sunrises in Uganda happen suddenly. On the equator, dawn is dark, turning pink at the eastern corners at the sky at 6:00, 6:30. Then…