Anne Kniggendorf
Anne Kniggendorf is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, whose work has appeared in local media outlets as well as in the Smithsonian Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, and several literary reviews, including two as far away as India and Scotland.
She’s a graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she did not study journalism but Western philosophy and historical mathematics. She holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in creative writing, which she thinks is close enough to journalism the way she does it. Anne is a Navy veteran.
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A college professor with Kansas City roots is highlighting the city's influence in LGBTQ+ history and the national gay bar scene. Lucas Hilderbrand says the city was a nexus for gay political activity, activism and culture. -
Rebecca Koop has worked on beautifying her corner of Northeast Kansas City for decades. She'll show off her tile mosaic on April 22. -
An Omaha developer purchased an office building that serves as an incubator for Black-owned businesses, but no one has told those business owners what to expect. -
At Lost Cowgirl Records in Stull, Kansas, Jenna Rae and Martin Farrell Jr. have created a recording technique that literally echoes the sound of an entire band playing together. -
Ceramic Cafe owner Sara Thompson wanted to do something fun for the community while using up some extra clay. -
Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum's Mini-Golf Course Will Reopen With Tribute To Negro Leagues BaseThe Nelson-Atkins' mini-golf course will reopen March 19 with a new hole modeled on Radcliffe Bailey's "Mound Magician." -
Retired Hallmark employees, university faculty members and plastic surgeons are some of the medical and non-medical volunteers who make up the Medical Reserve Corps of Kansas City. -
Like other groups, poets and poetry lovers are meeting virtually and strengthening their ties in the process. -
New York Artist Captures Words And Music Of The 2020 Pandemic Year, Including Works From Kansas CityNew York artist Ted Riederer uses his label Never Records to archive what's happening in various moments in history. He'll release "Apocalypse Anthems" on Feb. 14. -
New Book Inspired By Volunteering With Kansas City Hospice Patients Highlights Healing Powers Of MusSteve Litwer is an amateur guitarist who's written a book about the healing nature of his volunteer work with people approaching death.
