Kathleen Ellis’ most recent poetry collections are Outer-Body Travel, Narrow River to the North, and Body of Evidence which won the 2022 Grayson Books Poetry Contest. Her poems have recently appeared in The Café Review, Rumors, Secrets, and Lies; A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis; and Enough!: Poems of Resistance and Protest. Poems from “Dear Darwin” were set to music and released as a Parma Recordings CD, nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Arts Commission, and Nimrod‘s Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, she teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Maine, Orono. She also coordinates the annual POETS/SPEAK! in Bangor.