Kathy Z. Price is an author, poet, and musician. Her latest literary poetic book, MARDI GRAS ALMOST DIDN’T COME THIS YEAR (2022, Atheneum), depicting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, received starred reviews from The Horn Book Review, ALA Booklist, and Publisher’s Weekly. An earlier book received favorable reviews in the NYT and was a Children’s Literature Assembly Notable Book. Tri-Quarterly Review, Bayou Magazine, Cincinnati Review, and Pleiades have featured her work. She has poems in the upcoming issues of Bombay Gin, and North Dakota Review among others.
She’s a two-time Pushcart nominee, and received Poetry Fellowship award with New York Foundation of the Arts. She’s been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Edward Albee Foundation, and Cave Canem, Community of Writers and Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown.
Kathy’s newest projects include poetry that offers a fresh perspective and musically crafted approach to Josephine Baker. At Saltonstall, she will be working on a collection of poems featuring Butterfly McQueen. The project at Saltonstall will develop a collection of poems that speak to politics of those times with unsheathing truth versus mythology learned from the ancestors. A second project at Saltonstall Residency is to construct poems as a narrative verse novel of poetry, after the style of Edgar Master’s Spoon River Anthology, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Gwendolyn Brook’s Bronze Town depicting a coming-of-age, coming-of-strength female protagonist.