Louise Bokkenheuser
Louise Bokkenheuser, an MFA candidate in Fiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars, was a crime reporter, gossip columnist and war correspondent before becoming an editor. Her first book, a memoir, was published in 2009.
Biography
Bokkenheuser's book What Doesn’t Kill You, a memoir about the war in Iraq, was published by Gyldendal in her native Denmark in 2009. She came to fiction after a 20-year detour through the peaks and valleys of American journalism that included time as a crime reporter in L.A., a gossip columnist in Hollywood, a war correspondent in Iraq and a political reporter in Iowa. She spent almost a decade at the Los Angeles Times, before becoming the Foreign Editor at successively The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Mashable and HuffPost. She is a Pulitzer finalist and has won the Overseas Press Club Award as well as the Ebbe Munck Prize. Awarded by the Queen of Denmark, this award honors extraordinary achievements in literature or other writing. While pursuing her MFA in the Bennington Writing Seminars, Bokkenheuser was awarded a Residential Teaching Fellowship at Bennington for Spring 2022.