A poet and essayist whose writing explores the intersection of the personal with place, landscape, and the natural world, Kateri Kosek is the author of American Eclipse, winner of the 2022 Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Book Award, as well as a chapbook, Vernal (Split Rock Press). Kateri’s poetry and essays have appeared in such places as Orion Magazine, Terrain.org, Catamaran, Northern Woodlands Magazine, and Creative Nonfiction, where she won the best essay prize for the “Intoxication” issue. Her poetry won a contest at Briar Cliff Review, and has been a finalist at Flyway, Writers at Work, Rosebud, and Arts & Letters. Kateri lectures in English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, and has taught at Marist College, Dutchess Community College, and Western CT State University, where she mentors in the MFA program in Creative and Professional Writing. She lives in western Massachusetts, where she writes for Berkshire Magazine and The Berkshire Edge. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College, not far from where she grew up in the Hudson Valley, and an MFA from Western CT State University. She has been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, and the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Kansas. Kateri has occasionally worked surveying bird populations in the Taconic Mountains for Green Berkshires, and in Aton Forest in northwest Connecticut. She also serves on the board of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education.

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Photo credit: Raphael Kosek