Cathryn Cofell

 Cathryn Cofell is the author of Stick Figure with Skirt, winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, Sister Satellite (Cowfeather Press), and six chapbooks, including Split Personality with Karla Huston (sunnyoutside, 2012). You can also hear her perform her poems on Lip, with the music of Obvious Dog. Her work has been published in over 300 journals and anthologies, and she is the recipient of over 50 awards, including the Mill Prize for Poetry (2019), the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award (2014), the Christopher Latham Sholes Award for mentoring other poets, and multiple Pushcart nominations.

Cofell is a passionate advocate for the arts, with an emphasis on poetry. She was the founder and long-time chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and also helped to launch and grow Poetry Unlocked, the WFOP Chapbook Prize, Verse Wisconsin, the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective, and the Fox Cities Book Festival. She is the city of Appleton's first Poet Laureate and Immediate Past President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.