S. Kirk Walsh

Biography

S. Kirk Walsh has taught creative writing at New York University, St. Edward’s University, and Media Bistro. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Guernica, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of Austin Bat Cave, a writing and tutoring center for kids.

See Work

CRITICISM / Fall 2015

The Art of the Steal

By S. Kirk Walsh

As we discussed some of his favorite authors—from Heinrich von Kleist and Virginia Woolf to Jack Kerouac and Jayne Anne Phillips—Doctorow asked: “What can you steal from these writers?”
CRITICISM / Summer 2014

Female Friendship: Debut Novels by Rufi Thorpe and Emily Gould

By S. Kirk Walsh

Female friendships are not commonly found at the center of the literary novel, but this summer welcomes debut novels by two young, talented writers that place female friendships front and center in their narratives—​The Girls from Corona...