Kate Gleason's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Worcester Review, Boomer Girls, Claiming the Spirit Within, and many other publications. A recipient of writing fellowships from the NEA in conjunction with the Ragdale Foundation, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, she is the author of two chapbooks of poetry and the full-length collection MEASURING THE DARK. Formerly a poet in the schools and the editor of Peregrine, she teaches writing workshops in Keene and Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Northampton, Massachusetts.