Kathleen Kirk (Normal, Illinois) is the author of three poetry chapbooks: "Selected Roles" (Moon Journal Press, 2006), "Broken Sonnets" (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and the forthcoming "Living on the Earth" (Finishing Line Press, May, 2010.) Her work has appeared previously in many print and online journals, including Fourth River, Fifth Wednesday, Ninth Letter, Oklahoma Review, Blood Lotus, Many Mountains Moving, Greensboro Review, and Comstock Review.

Kirk's poems "Blind Gentian," "Start Something" and "The Way Back" appeared previously in Volume 1 Issue 7 of Apparatus Magazine.