Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is a writer from San Antonio, Texas, who lives in California. She's the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Transformer (2020), judge's prize for The Word Works Hilary Tham Collection imprint; I will not kick my friends (2018), winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize; and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Award and the Antivenom Prize. In 2022, Texas Review Press will publish Cat's Tongue, a chapbook. Winter's poems and short fiction have appeared in The New Republic, The New Statesman, Michigan Quarterly Review, Agni, Five Points, Cincinnati Review, and Poetry London. She received fellowships at the Dobie Paisano Ranch, Sewanee Writers' Conference, James Merrill House, Dora Maar House, Cill Rialaig Retreat and Vermont Studio Center. Her awards include the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize and the Poetry Society of America's The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award. Winter is an associate editor with 32 Poems Magazine; she teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.