Biography

Kathryn Winograd is the author of Air into Breath, a 2002 Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry, and 2003 Colorado Author League Award Winner in Poetry. Winograd is the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry and a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as TriQuarterly, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and The New Yorker. Recent poetry events include featured readings for the Colorado Poetry on a Platter series, the 2003 Loveland’s Poets in the Park, Many Mountain’s Literary Salon, and the Boulder Women Writer’s Event. Winograd holds a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Denver, and a MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She has taught poetry workshops for many institutions including University College at the University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Denver and CCCOnline. She was recently elected to be part of the Colorado Online Poetry Project for K12 students, and is currently on full time English faculty for the Arapahoe Community College. She has also developed a free online poetry resources site for K-12 teachers with the Colorado Foundation for Water Education as part of a Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant. Her newest book, a classroom resource book for K12 teachers, Stepping Into Poetry, Sideways, will be published by Scholastic, Inc. in the Fall of 2005.