Kathleen Boland is a graduate of Louisiana State University's MFA program, where she was the editorial assistant for The Southern Review and received the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award. An attendee of the Tin House Summer Workshop, her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Tin House, Paper Darts, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the Events and Programming Manager for the independent publishing group, Catapult / Counterpoint Press / Soft Skull Press. When not coordinating book tours, she is at work on a novel.