Kathleen Hellen is the author of Umberto’s Night (2012), winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House poetry prize, and The Girl Who Loved Mothra (2010). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary; Barrow Street; Drunken Boat; Evergreen; New Letters; Prairie Schooner; Stand; Sycamore Review; Witness; among others. Awards include first-place poetry prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review as well as two Pushcart nominations in 2013.