Biography
Kate Kingston has published five collections of poetry. Her most recent book, The Future Wears Camouflage, has been released from Middle Creek Publishing, August, 2025. She is the recipient of the Atlanta Review International Publication Prize, the Karen Chamberlain Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in Colorado, The Ruth Stone Prize, the Crestone Wayfarer Poetry Award, and the W.D Snodgrass Award for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence. Kingston has received fellowship residencies at the Harwood Museum, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Jentel, Ucross, as well as fellowships to Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal, and Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain. Several of her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education with a Spanish major from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University. She has served as Language Department Chairperson at Utah State University, Eastern, and Professor of Spanish and English at Trinidad State College. She currently lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado.
