Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Raised in the nomadic subculture of the U.S. military, Kathryn Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Germany, Texas, and the Carolinas. For over 20 years she has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful(Clemson UP, 2014).  Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Shenandoah, Southern Review, storySouth ,Terrain.org and other magazines.  She is the editor of Cold Mountain Review.

Contributions by Kathryn Kirkpatrick