ABOUT KATHLEEN

Kathleen Balma is the author of the poetry collection FROM YOUR HOSTESS AT THE T&A MUSEUM (Black Spring Press Group, 2022). A Fulbright fellow and Pushcart Prize winner, she is the recipient of scholarships from Sewanee Writers' Conference and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a commendation from the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, and a fellowship from Rivendell Writers' Colony. Her work has appeared in the Australian International Poetry Prize Anthology Silence, Best New Poets, Ecotone, Missouri Review's Poem of the Week, the Montreal International Poetry Prize Global Poetry Anthology, New Ohio Review, Verse Daily, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She grew up near Cave-in-Rock State Park on the Ohio River (pictured below) and works at New Orleans Public Library.