Katherine Bode-Lang is the 2014 winner of The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; The Reformation was published in October 2014 and is being distributed by Copper Canyon Press. Her chapbook, Spring Melt (Seven Kitchens Press), placed second in the 2008 Keystone Chapbook Contest and earned the New England Poetry Club’s Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Subtropics, and Tupelo Quarterly. Katherine earned her MFA in poetry at Penn State University, where she is now an IT Trainer in the Office of Research Protections. She lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband, Andrew.

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