Kathleen Cassen Mickelson, M.F.A. (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota), is a Minnesota-based poet and nonfiction writer, and co-founder of the poetry journal Gyroscope Review, which she co-edited until 2020. She runs the blog, One Minnesota Crone, where the creativity of women over 50 is celebrated. Her work has appeared in journals in the U.S., U.K., and Canada.