K. B. Ballentine

KB Ballentine received her MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She has participated in writing academies in the United States and Europe and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in English.

As an English, theatre, creative writing, and humanities teacher for over thirty years, she also conducts writing workshops throughout the United States.

Author of nine collections of poetry and published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, KB was a finalist for the 2006 Joy Harjo Poetry Award and a 2007 finalist for the Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry. KB received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund Award in 2006 and 2007. She was an Opera Omaha finalist in 2008, a 2014 finalist for the Ron Rash Poetry Award, and received the Libba Moore Gray Poetry Prize in 2016. KB won Writer’s Digest November 2024 PAD Chapbook Challenge and Poetry Society of Tennessee’s 2025 Best of the Fest.