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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Kanbe's Markets began three years ago as a way to give people access to fresh produce in food deserts. Today, Kanbe's is a hub, attracting other organizations that want to team up to feed the hungry.
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Dining in is once again possible in and around Kansas City, with COVID-related practices in place. Customers seem happy, but some restaurants are struggling to keep up with the competing demands of the times.
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Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has given movie theaters the green light to reopen Friday, but the coronavirus pandemic means there aren't any new movies to show.
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These Historic Kansas Businesses Survived The Great Depression And World Wars, But COVID-19 Is TestiOn the surface, these three Kansas businesses — all more than a hundred years old — may not have a lot in common, but they all say customers want two things right now: comfort and escape.
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As meat becomes more scarce and more expensive, barbecue restaurants throughout the metro are struggling to keep customers — and their smokers — full.
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Restaurateurs try to keep staff and customers safe, while also grappling with supply chain disruptions, social distancing measures, and increased sanitation requirements.
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As people with gym memberships throughout the Kansas City metro have transitioned to online workouts at home — in coronavirus times, "working in" is the...
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On a chunk of unincorporated land outside of Leavenworth, Kansas, Adam Gnade has more or less been self-isolating for 10 years. He's quick to say that...
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Listen to this episode of A People's History Of Kansas City , a new podcast from KCUR 89.3. For more stories like this one, subscribe on Apple Podcasts ...
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Randy Brown was barely talking yet when his father shipped out for Vietnam. To close the distance over the course of that deployment, Brown's parents...