Kathleen Winter's second book, I will not kick my friends (2018), won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, won the Texas Institute of Letters first book award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Agni, New Statesman, New Republic, Yale Review and Poetry London. She has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dobie Paisano Ranch, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House and Cill Rialaig Retreat. Winter lives in Glen Ellen, CA.