Kate Bolton Bonnici

Kate Bolton Bonnici grew up in rural Alabama and is a graduate of Harvard University (BA); New York University School of Law (JD); the University of California, Riverside (MFA); and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Southern Humanities Review, Image, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize and The Fairy Tale Review’s Poetry Prize, as well as a semi-finalist for the Word Works’ Washington Prize, the Crab Orchard Series Poetry Open competition, the Gold Wake Press Open competition, the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, and the Brittingham Prize. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters and teaches early modern English literature and creative writing at UCLA.