Katharine Whitcomb is the author of Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which won the Bluestem Award, chosen by Lucia Perillo, and The Daughter's Almanac, which won the Backwaters Prize, chosen by Patricia Smith. Her chapbook, Lamp of Letters, won the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, MacDowell, Yaddo, and elsewhere. She teaches at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, Washington. More information about the author and her work can be found at www.katharinewhitcomb.com.