Kent Gramm

Kent Gramm is a Wisconsin native who has taught college students in Germany, Illinois, Indiana, and now at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. A lifelong student of the Civil War, he has written several books on the war, Lincoln, and their relevance to the present day. November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and the graduate writing program at LSU awards an annual Kent Gramm Prize in Creative Nonfiction. He has a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. A winner of the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, he has published the poetry collections Psalms for Skeptics and Psalms for the Poor, along with the nonfiction The Prayer of Jesus: A Reading of the Lord's Prayer. Recent books are the novel Cars: A Romantic Manifesto, and the forthcoming Bitterroot: An American Epic and Public Poems.