Born and raised along the Mississippi River, Kate Welsh lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was the Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow in 2021. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her poems can be found in Ninth Letter, Grist, Variant Lit, and Arts & Letters among others. She is the co-founder/co-editor of The Swannanoa Review. www.kate-welsh.com