Katherine Soniat’s seventh collection of poems, Bright Stranger, is recently out from Louisiana State University Press. The Goodbye Animals won the 2014 Turtle Island Chapbook Award. A Shared Life was selected for the Iowa Poetry Prize, and The Swing Girl (LSU Press) for the Best Collection of 2011 by the North Carolina Poetry Council. Previously on the MFA faculty at Virginia Tech and Hollins University, she teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program/UNC-Asheville. Learn more about her work at www.katherinesoniat.com.
Participation at the 2016 West End Poetry Festival
- Opening Celebration | Friday, October 14 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books
- For a full schedule and descriptions of all sessions, see the festival schedule.