Poet. Writer. Painter. Teacher. Poet Laureate Emerita.
Kate Buckley's work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, Bellingham Review, Belmont Story Review, The Cafe Review, Chaparral, The Heartland Review, North American Review, Poetry Foundation, Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry, Rattle, Shenandoah, Silk Road Review, Slipstream, and many others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University and is the author of A Wild Region (Moon Tide Press), named a Midwest Book Review Selection, and Follow Me Down (Tebot Bach).
A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Kate's awards include a Gabehart Prize and the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize. Her short story, "The Gods of Flight," was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Charles Harper Webb said of her work, "Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." Kate is also Poet Laureate Emerita of Laguna Beach, California. As the first Poet Laureate of Laguna Beach, her platform included serving as a brand ambassador for the literary arts—creating content, performing readings, lecturing, teaching workshops and classes, and creating, coordinating, and leading Laguna Beach's first ever literary festival. She also created and produced a Poet Laureate's Showcase Series, bringing nationally known poets and writers to Laguna Beach.
Also a classically trained artist, working primarily in acrylics and mixed media collage, Kate explores subject matter ranging from mythology to philosophical quandaries of the modern age. Informed by her work as a poet, her serene and dreamlike images create worlds all their own.
A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Kate's awards include a Gabehart Prize and the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize. Her short story, "The Gods of Flight," was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Charles Harper Webb said of her work, "Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." Kate is also Poet Laureate Emerita of Laguna Beach, California. As the first Poet Laureate of Laguna Beach, her platform included serving as a brand ambassador for the literary arts—creating content, performing readings, lecturing, teaching workshops and classes, and creating, coordinating, and leading Laguna Beach's first ever literary festival. She also created and produced a Poet Laureate's Showcase Series, bringing nationally known poets and writers to Laguna Beach.
Also a classically trained artist, working primarily in acrylics and mixed media collage, Kate explores subject matter ranging from mythology to philosophical quandaries of the modern age. Informed by her work as a poet, her serene and dreamlike images create worlds all their own.