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About Kasia van Schaik

Kasia van Schaik is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country (2018), and her writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Prism International, Jacket2, and more.

Kasia received the Quebec Writer's Federation Short Story Prize (2009) and was a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize (2017). She serves as the fiction editor for carte blanche, the Quebec Writers' Federation's literary journal. Kasia lives in Montreal and can be found on twitter at @kasiajuno or at kasiajuno.weebly.com.

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

How to Be Silent in German

I asked Lukas to translate Der Spiegel for me so I could read the German murder trials without missing any details. The victims were mostly women, the murderers, men. Sometimes the victims were … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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