Litfield is a place to:
- Find a home in the world of writingÂ
- Learn craft through online classes with acclaimed writers
- Relish your writing practice
- Re-connect to a sense of wonder and meaning
- Find refuge in a community of writers led by award winning poet Danusha Laméris
We offer classes in several formats: webinars, small zoom rooms, and pre-recorded craft talks, (to name a few), and our mission is to keep expanding the ways we can connect writers to the page, to each other and to the world around us.
Many of us dream of being writers, having a writing practice, and publishing books.Â
This is a place to find support and guidance in reaching for those goals, while also developing writing rituals that deepen and enhance your experience of life.
A writer is a professional observer
~Susan Sontag
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer
~Simone Weil
Here at Litfield, we believe in you. We believe the small (or loud) voice that led you here, is also taking you closer to a fuller expression of who you are. That you are here for a reason. And that’s why we curate classes with a host of smart, skilled and lauded writers to guide you along the way.Â
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Three paths to explore:
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Upcoming Classes and Webinars
Join us this summer for a craft class series with Danusha Laméris: "All worlds come to an end. The worlds of childhood, the brand-new love affair, the world of once-was. Who we used to be. Where we used to live. The dream that never came to be. Poems are one of the ways we capture what is (or was/ or could be), press it to the page for safe-keeping."
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Michael Kleber-DiggsÂ
Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of My Weight in Water, a memoir about his complicated relationship with lap swimming (forthcoming with Spiegel & Grau, 2026). Michael’s debut poetry collection, Wordly Things, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. His poems and essays often explore themes of intimacy, community, empathy, and grace, practices he believes are simultaneously distinct and interdependent. Michael is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, and he teaches creative writing at Augsburg University and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Michael is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. Karen and Michael have a daughter, Elinor, who lives in New York City and works as a professional dancer.
Nickole Brown
Nickole Brown is a poet whose work springs from her Southern roots and deep love for animals and the natural world. Raised in Kentucky, she now lives in Asheville, NC, where she volunteers at animal sanctuaries and writes poems that challenge traditional views of nature. Her books include Sister, Fanny Says, The Donkey Elegies, and To Those Who Were Our First Gods, winner of the 2018 Rattle Prize. A passionate teacher and literary collaborator, she co-founded the SunJune Literary Collaborative with poet Jessica Jacobs, and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters. Currently, she’s the President of the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, an annual environmental literary festival set to launch in Black Mountain, NC, in October of 2026.
For more information about Nickole you can visit:Â https://www.nickolebrown.org/about-nickole
Keetje Kuiipers
Keetje Kuipers is the author of four collections of poetry, all from BOA Editions: Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025), winner of the Isabella Gardner Award; All Its Charms (2019), which includes poems honored by publication in both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies; The Keys to the Jail (2014); and Beautiful in the Mouth (2010), which was chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine, Yale Review, and Poetry, among others. Keetje has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, an NEA Literature Fellow in Creative Writing, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf, the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, and the recipient of multiple residency fellowships, including PEN Northwest’s Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Previously a VP on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Keetje is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest, and teaches at universities and conferences around the world, including at the dual-language writers’ gathering Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, on the land of the Salish and Kalispel peoples and directly at the foot of the Rattlesnake Wilderness Area. She lives there with her wife and their two children, where she co-directs the Headwaters Reading Series for Health & Well-Being and keeps an eye out for bears in her backyard.
