Kathleen Hellen is an award-winning poet whose third, full-length collection Meet Me at the Bottom was released in 2022. Her publications include The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work is widely published and has appeared in such journals as Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Nimrod, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, The Sewanee Review, Sixth Finch, Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, Tampa Review Online, West Branch, and elsewhere. Hellen’s awards include the Thomas Merton prize for Poetry of the Sacred and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.
