Katherine Gaffney completed her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi and her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has previously appeared in jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. She has attended the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, the SAFTA Residency, and the Sewanee Writers Conference as a scholar. Her first chapbook, Once Read as Ruin, was published at Finishing Line Press. Her first full-length collection, Fool in a Blue House, won the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her passion is teaching first year writing, professional/technical writing, and creative writing.