Kathryn Winograd

Kathryn Winograd is a Colorado poet, essayist, and photographer. Her books include Air Into Breath, an alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets and a Colorado Book Award winner, Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from a Pandemic, a semifinalist for the Finishing Line Press 2020 Open Chapbook contest, Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, which received a Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and her most recent book of poetry/photography/prose, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye.  Her poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXVIII, won the Chautauqua Literary Journal’s Poetry contest on War and Peace and the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition for non-rhyming poetry and appeared over the years in numerous literary journals as diverse as The New Yorker and Cricket Magazine for Children. Her essays have been noted in Best American Essays, and published in numerous journals and anthologies including Arts & Letters, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, The Florida Review, Terrain.org, and Essay Daily.  Her photography has appeared as cover art for online journals and been published with her essays and poems. Winograd's photo of a mother owl and her chick, "Morning Surprise," was recently shown as part of the Denver Children's Gallery Exhibit, The Passionate Spectator.

Winograd has been a longtime educator and arts advocate, teaching creative writing for over 40 years to writers of all ages and experience. As English Faculty and Chair for Arapahoe  Community College, Winograd developed and expanded its Creative Writing focus, ACC’s Writers Studio, and the Progenitor Art & Literary Journal. Winograd has been the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship, and a co-winner of a Colorado Endowment for The Humanities Grant. She was a founding faculty member for the Ashland University MFA in Ohio and taught poetry and creative nonfiction for Regis University's Mile High MFA. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.

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