Kathleen Balma is the author of Gallimaufry & Farrago, from Finishing Line Press, a poetry chapbook. A Fulbright fellow, she is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a fellowship from Rivendell Writers’ Colony. Her poetry has appeared in The Pushcart Prize XXXVII, Rattle, Spillway, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She works at New Orleans Public Library.