Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three previous collections of poems: Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems, Hosannas, and Lamp of Letters. She is the co-author, with artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of The Art Courage Program. She is the co-editor of A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology, and the founding co- editor of Cascadia Chronicle: A Geospatial Journal of Place, Environment and Imagination. Whitcomb was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and had fellowships in poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has published in many journals including The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, and Narrative, and in anthologies, including Fire On Her Tongue, and Making Poems. She teaches at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, Washington.