A poet and essayist whose writing explores the intersection of the personal with place, landscape, and the natural world, Kateri Kosek is the author of American Eclipse, winner of the 2022 Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Book Award, as well as a chapbook, Vernal (Split Rock Press). She authored the text for The Forest Revealed: An Illustrated Year, a book of watercolor paintings by Maine artist Jada Fitch depicting the northern forest, released by Storey Publishing in 2025. Kateri’s poetry and essays have appeared in such places as Orion Magazine, Terrain.org, Catamaran, Northern Woodlands Magazine, Rhino, New Ohio Review, Fourth River, and Southern Poetry Review. Her prose has won awards at Creative Nonfiction, Blue Earth Review, and Cutthroat, where her essay was among the winners selected by Pam Houston. Her poetry has won contests at Briar Cliff Review, Common Ground Review, and the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and has been a finalist at Flyway, Writers at Work, Rosebud, and Arts & Letters. Kateri lectures in English at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, and has taught at Marist College, Dutchess Community College, and Western CT State University, where she mentors in the MFA program in Creative and Professional Writing. She freelances at The Berkshire Edge in western Massachusetts, where she has also written for Berkshire Magazine. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College, not far from where she grew up in the Hudson Valley, and an MFA from Western CT State University. She has been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, and the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Kansas. Kateri has occasionally worked surveying bird populations in the Taconic Mountains for Green Berkshires, and in Aton Forest in northwest Connecticut. She serves on the board of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education, and after ten years in the Berkshires, lives in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.

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Photo credit: Raphael Kosek