KATHERINE SONIAT’s eighth collection of poems—Polishing the Glass Storm—is out from LSU Press (2022). Her ninth collection, Starfish Wash-up, was recently published by Etruscan Press in 2023. Bright Stranger was published in 2016 (LSU PRESS). Honors: The Goodbye Animals in 2014 was awarded the Turtle Island Chapbook Prize. A Shared Life won the University of Iowa Poetry Prize and The Swing Girl (LSU Press) was selected as Best Collection of Year by the North Carolina Poetry Council. Notes of Departure was selected for The Camden Poetry Prize by the Walt Whitman Center for the Arts & Humanities in 1984. Selected Arrangements: BlueTopaz (Poetry 1985-2023) was recently completed, and her eleventh collection, Authority, will be finished for Fall, 2024.
