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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While college-bound students may want to pack up and head off to far-off schools, they're now forced to make hard decisions about deferring those moves until a less risky time.
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It’s not unprecedented for one person to hold both jobs temporarily, but a permanent change of this kind is historic.
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Three area community colleges see changes in enrollment for the fall semester. Each has complex considerations in making decisions for its students and staff.
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Artist Stephonne Singleton says he'd long felt he wasn't "enough." He looked to substances and to other people to soften the feeling, until he found freedom in his own music.
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Missouri's Bright Flight Scholarship is for undergraduates who score in the top 3% of the ACT or SAT. The hope is that the extra money will keep them in state.
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Before budgetary woes brought on by the pandemic, New Letters on the Air and BkMk Press had been a 'point of distinction and pride' in Kansas City for decades.
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John Pryor's furniture business was just three years old when the pandemic struck. He put away his saws and sandpaper, and enlisted the help of Kansas City's refugee community to produce thousands of masks in the interim.
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Michael Pritchett's novella "Tania the Revolutionary" takes place in the 1970s, following a young woman newly-escaped from a cult and obsessed with news of Patty Hearst and the Manson Family murders.
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Cedar Cove Feline Conservation and Education Center in Louisburg, Kansas, is home to 28 apex predators, and falls within a gray area of oversight.
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Aaram Salam has two primary interests: piano, and Alzheimer's disease. At only 15, he's dedicated himself to combining the passions by playing recitals at nursing homes.