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.
As a poet and photographer, Winograd explores the connections she finds between the written and the visual arts, seeking the rhythms and the gaps they share. Within the majesty of our western landscape lie the small and complex shapes and beings that give it texture, life, breath. Her photography continues to be exhibited in juried shows and exhibitions including an eight woman show at the Aplomb Project Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center 2025 Internationally juried Threshold exhibit, the Women’s Caucus for Arts’ exhibit Big-ideas: Honoring the Big Ideas of Women Artists!, and as a one woman exhibit of photography and poetry at Koelbel Library.. Her photography has been published along with her poems and creative nonfiction in online journals including The Ekphrastic Review, The Green Briar Literary Review, Terrain.org, and Tiny Seed Journal.
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.
Exhibits include:
Two Doves on Black,” has been selected for a Special Mention for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center Members’ Show June 2026
What Does Water Mean To You art show at the Colorado State University Spur June 2026
Poetic Reverie exhibit at the Valkarie Gallery in Lakewood June-July 2026
RISE Exhibit at 40 West Arts on West Colfax in Denver, April 2026. Invited to exhibit phtograph as well for the Blue Bench RISE Party Fund Raiser, April 25th.
Hope Is . . .a selected eight-women exhibit at the Aplomb Project Gallery in Dover, New Hampshire: March 2026
Evergreen Center for the Arts oh the places you will go open call exhibit Feb-March 2026
Creatures All, juried exhibit at the Depot january 2026
Colorado Photographic Arts Center Threshold 2025 juried exhibit. Passionate Spectator juried Exhibit at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Passionate Spectator open call Exhibit at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Little-ton, Big-ideas: Honoring the Big Ideas of Women Artists! open call exhibit at Arapahoe Community College ,
The World I Carry Now: Photographs and Poems from the Riparian , a one woman juried exhibit of photography and poetry for the Arapahoe Libraries Art Galleries at Koelbel Library
Side by Side juried exhibit at the Depot, Honorable Mention
Fantasy Art juried exhibit at The Depot. Honorable mention
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