BIO:

Kelly M. Houle is an Arizona-based poet and visual artist. Her paintings and handmade books are in public and private collections around the world. Her poems have been published in Alba, CALYX, Connecticut River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review, Radar Poetry, Sequestrum, and others. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Arts and Letters ‘Unclassifiable’ contest and winner of a Vivian Shipley Award. In 2020 she received an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University.