Kathleen Halme

Kathleen Halme grew up in Michigan’s upper peninsula. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, where her work was awarded the Hopwood

Creative Writing Award.  Her honors include a National Endowment for

the Arts fellowship in poetry, a National Endowment for the

Humanities summer fellowship in anthropology, and an Oregon Literary

Fellowship.  Her poems have appeared widely in journals, including

Poetry, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review and

Anthropological Quarterly. Her three books of poetry are Every

Substance Clothed, winner of the University of Georgia Press

Contemporary Poetry Series and the Balcones Poetry Prize, Equipoise

published by Sarabande Books and Drift and Pulse from Carnegie Mellon

University Press. A new collection, My Multiverse, winner of the 2014 Green Rose Prize in Poetry, is forthcoming in March 2015 from New Issues Press. She lives in Portland, Oregon.