Katharine Whitcomb

Katharine Whitcomb is the author of four collections of poems: The Daughter’s Almanac, winner of the 2014 Backwaters Prize; Lamp of Letters, winner of the 2009 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award; Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, winner of the 2000 Bluestem Award; and Hosannas (Parallel Press, 1999). She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, Washington.