Kathleen Winter is the author of Transformer, judge’s prize for The Word Works Hilary Tham contest; I will not kick my friends, Elixir Prize winner; and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the Antivenom Prize. Her poems and short fiction are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Republic, The New Statesman, Diode, Agni, Copper Nickel, Five Points, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry London. Her awards include the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize, the Ralph Johnston Fellowship at the University of Texas Dobie Paisano Ranch, and the Poetry Society of America The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award.