Kathryn Smith is a graduate of EWU’s MFA program. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Bellingham Review, Third Coast, Ruminate, Cleaver Magazine, and several other journals, magazines and anthologies, and her work has been nominated for Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. A mini-chapbook, Tracing the New Stars, was just published by Rock & Sling. She works at the Spokesman-Review as a copy editor and page designer.