Katherine Towler

Katherine Towler is author of a memoir, The Penny Poet of Portsmouth, and the novels Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light, a trilogy set on a fictional New England island. With Ilya Kaminsky, she is co-editor of A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith, a collection of interviews. Her essays, poetry, short stories, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Agni, Poetry International, Image, and other literary journals. She has taught creative writing to students of all ages and currently teaches graduate students in the low residency Mountainview MFA Program in Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. She grew up in New York City and lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.