Kathleen S. Burgess

Kathleen S. Burgess, senior editor, Pudding Magazine: The Journal of Applied Poetry, three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, won Sheila-Na-Gig’s 2018 fall/winter contest, and won/placed in other national and state contests. Published widely—North American Review, Main Street Rag, Cigar City Poetry Journal, Central American Literary Review, Sou’wester, she wrote a memoir in poems What Burden Do Those Trains Bear Away (Bottom Dog Press) about hitchhiking, 11,000 miles from Washington, D.C., to Lima, Peru, edited the anthology Reeds and Rushes—Pitch, Buzz, and Hum (Pudding House), has two chapbooks, and the 2019 book The Wonder Cupboard (NightBallet Press). A retired public school music teacher, union officer, and past vice-president of the Ohio Poetry Association, other jobs pink- and blue-collar include soldering airplane lights, baking industrial plastic parts, serving as statistical typist, proofreader, administrator of a home for developmentally disabled men. With her husband Jack Burgess she walks trails, studies earthworks, and enjoys time with three sons and a daughter.  kathleensburgess.com.