Bio 

Kate Kingston has published two books of poetry, Shaking the Kaleidoscope, a finalist in the Idaho Prize, and History of Grey, a runner-up in the Main Street Rag Award.  She has also published three chapbooks. Her manuscript, The Future Wears Camouflage, is forthcoming. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Karen Chamberlain Award, the W.D Snodgrass Award for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence, the Ruth Stone Prize, and the Atlanta Review International Publication Prize.  Kingston has been awarded fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts, Harwood Museum, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, Ucross, and Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain, among others. She has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes as well as for Poet Laureate of Colorado.  In addition to writing poetry, she engages in translation and prose.    

Kingston has served as Language Department Chairperson at Utah State University, Eastern, and as Professor of Spanish and Writing at Trinidad State. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College, and her Bachelor of Science Degree in Education with a Spanish major from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently she lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado.