Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is the author of Transformer (The Word Works Press, 2020) as well as I will not kick my friends, winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, which won the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have been published by The New Republic, The New Statesman, Agni, Cincinnati Review, and Poetry London. She was granted fellowships by Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House, Cill Rialaig Project, and Vermont Studio Center. Her awards include the Poetry Society of America The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, and the Ralph Johnston Fellowship at University of Texas’s Dobie Paisano Ranch. Winter teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.