Kathryn Winograd is a Colorado poet, essayist, and photographer. Her books include Air Into Breath, an alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets and a Colorado Book Award winner. Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from a Pandemic was a semifinalist for the Finishing Line Press 2020 Open Chapbook contest. Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children received a Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her most recent hybrid book of poetry, prose, and photography, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye, was awarded an honorable mention for Art Book by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. She has published poems and creative nonfiction over the years in journal as widely diverse as Cricket Magazine for Kids and The New Yorker.
Teaching/Education
She has taught creative writing for more than 40 years. Her students have been writers of all ages and experience levels, from kindergartners to Master of Fine Arts students. She taught full time at the Arapahoe Community College and part time at both the Ashland University low residency MFA program and the Regis University Mile-Hi MFA program. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Workshop and her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver.
Photography
She is a member of the Women’s Caucus for Art (WAC) and the Littleton Fine Arts Guild located at The Deport in Littleton. Her photography has been exhibited as part of The Passionate Spectator: a juried Photography Exhibition at the Denver Children’s Hospital, and through multiple venues through the Littleton Fine Arts Guild. Recent juried exhibits include: Colorado Photographic Arts Center 2025 Threshold exhibit, Little-ton, Big-ideas: Honoring the Big Ideas of Women Artists! at ACC in February. There was a one woman exhibit of photography and poetry for the Arapahoe Libraries Art Galleries at Koelbel Library in June 2025. In March 2025, Fantasy Art will be showcased at The Deport. Published photographs include The Ekphrastic Review, The Green Briar Literary Review, Terrain.org, and Tiny Seed Journal.
