Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, Kathleen Hellen’s work has appeared widely in such journals as Arts & Letters, The Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Evergreen Review, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, North American Review, Pank, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, The Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review, Superstition Review, Waxwing, West Branch, and Witness, among others. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, and Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and two chapbooks. Hellen is the recipient of the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.