Kathleen Winter is the author of three prize-winning poetry collections: Transformer, 
I will not kick my friends, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past. Her poems have appeared
widely in journals, including The New Republic, New Statesman, Yale Review, Poetry London, 
Agni,  and Colorado Review. She was granted fellowships at the Heinrich Böll Cottage, 
Maison Dora Maar, Cill Rialaig Project, James Merrill House, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and 
Vermont Studio Center. Awards include the Poetry Society of America the Writer Magazine Emily Dickinson 
Award, the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize, and the Ralph Johnston Fellowship. Kathleen teaches creative 
writing at Sonoma State University and serves as an associate editor for the journal 32 Poems.