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.  An attendee of the Tin House Summer Workshop and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency, her writing 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.