Biographical Info

Kathryn Hunt is a poet and writer and makes her home in Port Townsend, Washington on the coast of the Salish Sea. She is author of two poetry collections, Long Way Through Ruin and Seed Wheel and two chapbooks, The Country I Come From and She Who Walks the Earth. Her poems have appeared in the Orion, Radar, Poetry Northwest, Missouri Review, and Narrative. She’s recently completed a memoir, Nocturne, a mother-daughter tale. Kathryn has translated the work Catalan poet Maria-Mercè Marçal and is the recipient of residencies and awards from Ucross, Willapa Bay AIR, Hedgebrook, Artists Trust, and Joya AIR (Spain). She was a filmmaker earlier in her creative life. Her first film No Place Like Home premiered at the Venice Film Festival, in Italy. Take this Heart, her second film, was awarded the Anna Quindlen Award for Broadcast Journalism. She is the cofounder and curator of Poetry on the Salish Sea, a poetry series that brings poets from around the Pacific NW and beyond to the Olympic Peninsula to share their work.