Kathleen Boland is a graduate of Louisiana State University's MFA program, where she was the editorial assistant for The Southern Review and awarded the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award.  Supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center, her fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and elsewhere. 

She is the events and marketing manager at Catapult / Counterpoint Press / Soft Skull Press and serves on the Portland Book Festival Advisory Council. When not producing literary events, she is at work on a novel.