Kathryn Cowles

Kathryn Cowles’s The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor won Fence’s Modern Poets Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s di Castagnola Work-in-Progress Prize. Her other books are Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bearstar). Recent poems/collages in Best American Experimental Writing, Boston Review, Diagram, Free Verse, Georgia Review, New American Writing, Verse, and elsewhere. She earned her doctorate in poetry from the U of Utah and teaches English and Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she directs the Trias Writer’s Residency (rotating) and co-edits the multi-modal Beyond Category section of Seneca Review. kathryncowles.com

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Fence Books 25th Anniversary Reading