Kathryn Cowles is the author of two books of poems: Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed Editions), and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize from Bear Star Press). Her newest project, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor, won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for a manuscript in progress. Her poems, multi-media writings, and poem-photographs have been published in such places as Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Diagram, Free Verse, New American Writing, Tupelo, Verse, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day. She earned her doctorate in creative writing from the University of Utah and is an Associate Professor (and reluctant Chair) of English and Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She co-edits the multi-media Beyond Category section of Seneca Review and is rotating director of the Trias Residency for Writers. See more at kathryncowles.com.
