Kathleen Smith is a northwest poet with roots in Montana’s Flathead Valley. Her work has appeared in Raven Chronicles, Shrub-Steppe PoetryJournal, Windfall, Cirque, Helen: A Literary Journal, Rise Up Review, Baseball Bard, and The Far Field. She has won several awards from the Yakima Coffee House Poets and is included in regional anthologies fromOkanogan Poems, Floating Bridge Review, LitFuse, and the poet laureate’s129+ More Poets of WA. She lives and writes in the community of Roslyn, WA.