Biography

Kingston has published two chapbooks, In My Dreams Neruda, which placed as a finalist in the Main Street Rag Press Chapbook Award and El Río de Las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, which won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Award.

Katie Kingston is a recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Poetry. One of several recent awards is the Ruth Stone Prize from Hunger Mountain. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Hunger Mountain, Margie, Puerto del Sol, Nimrod, and Rattle.

She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Education with a Spanish major from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont. Her critical thesis is entitled “Translating to Experience.”

She currently lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado, an area known as the coal fields. Many of her recent poems draw from a wealth of history related to coal mining and the settling of the Purgatoire River Valley.