Kathleen Flenniken's has lived for many years in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Image, and Plume, and many other journals, and in anthologies including Cascadia Field Guide, and Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. She is the author of three poetry collections: Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and named a Notable Book by the American Library Association, Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012), a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and winner of a Washington State Book Award, and Post Romantic (University of Washington Press, 2020), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014.

Kathleen Flenniken's has lived for many years in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Image, and Plume, and many other journals, and in anthologies including Cascadia Field Guide, and Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. She is the author of three poetry collections: Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and named a Notable Book by the American Library Association, Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012), a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and winner of a Washington State Book Award, and Post Romantic (University of Washington Press, 2020), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014.