Kathleen Flenniken

Poet

Seattle, WA
Washington US
Email: 
flenniken@comcast.net
Website: 
kathleenflenniken.com

Author's Bio

 

Kathleen Flenniken's fourth collection, Dressing in the Dark, will be published by Lynx House Press in September 2025. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Post Romantic (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, 2020), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. A poem from that collection, "Married Love," is featured on the podcast Poetry Unbound.  Plume (2012), a personal history in poems about the Hanford Nuclear Site, won the Washington State Book Award and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. Her first book, Famous (2006), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a notable book by the National Library Association. Kathleen served as the Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 - 2014.  

 

Education: 
Pacific Lutheran University, Rainier Writing Workshop MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (Norton, 2022)
,
Pushcart Prize XXXVI Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2013)
,
The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013)
,
A Face to Meet the Faces (University of Akron Press, 2012)
Books:
Post Romantic (University of Washington Press, 2020)
,
Plume (University of Washington Press, 2012)
,
Famous (poems) (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
Journals:
Iowa Review
,
Mid-American Review
,
Poetry
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Southern Review
Prizes won: 

Washington State Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Notable Book Award from the American Library Association, Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, NEA Fellowship, Artist Trust Fellowship.

 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Richland, WA
Washington
Raised in: 
Richland, WA
Washington
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Last update: Mar 29, 2025