Lamp of Letters

Katharine Whitcomb was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and earned her B.A. from Macalester College in English. In 1995 she received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1996-1998. She is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Habitats, published in 2024 by Poetry Northwest Editions in the Possession Sound Series, The Daughter’s Almanac, which was chosen as the winner of the Backwaters Prize and published by The University of Nebraska Press/The Backwaters Press; Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which was chosen by Lucia Perillo as the winner of the Bluestem Award and published by Bluestem Press; and two poetry chapbooks, Hosannas (Parallel Press) and Lamp of Letters (Floating Bridge Press), winner of the 2009 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award