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, a semifinalist for the Finishing Line Press 2020 Open Chapbook contest, and Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, which received a Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards. 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 published by The Humble Essayist Press.
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. 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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(Author Photos by Will Sardinsky)
She has taught creative writing for more than 40 years to writers of all ages and experience, from kindergarteners to Master of Fine Arts students at 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. Her photography has been exhibited professionally, used as cover art for literary magazines, and been published with her poetry and essays.
“Retired,” Winograd writes with her doodle daily on the back screen porch of her Littleton home and her hummingbird porch up at her cabin near Phantom Canyon. She conducts quarterly interviews with poets on their new books for the Colorado Poets Center, serves as an editor for The Humble Essayist Press, and teaches occasional workshops for literary festivals, writing groups, and Denver Audubon summer camp, inspiring writers from 4-year-old literal “scribblers” to 80 something-year-old sages. And she loves it!
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