Maggie  Kast

Maggie Kast

Maggie Kast began writing in the 1990s, following a career in modern dance as founder, director and principal choreographer of Chicago Contemporary Dance Theater. She is the author of a memoir, The Crack between the Worlds (2009) and a novel, A Free, Unsullied Land (2015). She and her husband had five children, of whom three are now living, and she has three grandchildren, four step grandchildren, and two step great-grandchildren.