Upon first seeing a rhinoceros at the zoo at age 2, Katie said to her mom, “I want to be one of those when I grow up!” She has settled for being a poet.

Katie Manning is the author of Hereverent (Agape Editions), Tasty Other (Main Street Rag), and six chapbook collections: How to Play (Louisiana Literature Press), 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books), and The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Wipf & Stock). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, HAD, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Relief, So to Speak, Stirring, SWWIM, and Verse Daily. She has received the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, The Nassau Review Author Award for Poetry, and The Thimble Prize, among other honors and nominations. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review.

Katie has a Ph.D. in English (creative writing; women’s literature & feminist theory) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and an M.A. in English (creative writing) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University, where she recently founded Last Syllable: A Journal of Longform Literature with her M.A. students. She lives with her spouse and sons in San Diego.