About/Contact

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.

This Visible Speaking

Her most recent book, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye (March 2024), is an ekphrastic book of photos, poetry, and prose. It was published by The Humble Essayist Press. The book received an honorable mention from the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Grand Prize and it was a Finalist for the 2025 National Indie Excellence® Awards for art book, and a 2025 Book Excellence Award winner for Photography.

Writing Memberships and Poetry Awards

She is a member of the Colorado Authors League (CAL) and the Denver Women’s Press Club (DWPC). She is also part of the Colorado Center for Poetry (CPC). Additionally, she belongs to the Association of Writer’s and Writing Programs (AWP).Her poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXVIII, won the Chautauqua Literary Journal’s Poetry contest on War and Peace and the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition for non-rhyming poetry (really!),and appeared over the years in numerous literary journals as diverse as The New Yorker and Cricket Magazine for Children.

Essays

Her essays have been noted in Best American Essays and have been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Arts & Letters, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, The Florida Review, Terrain.org, and Essay Daily.  

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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.