Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and she edited the anthology Riding Shotgun:  Women Write About Their Mothers.  She has received fellowships and residencies from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Tofte Lake Center, the Oberholtzer Foundation, and Write On, Door County. Her poems, book reviews, travel articles, and essays have been published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Women’s Press, Mom Egg Review, Stone Coast Review, Great River Review, Permafrost, Midland Review, Mizna, and many other magazines and anthologies.  She is the founder of the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, and she has served on the boards of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and Rain Taxi. Kysar teaches workshops and offers manuscript consultations through the Loft Literary Center. Her most recent project was a collaborative CD of poems from Pretend the World. She performs with the Sonoglyph Collective, a poetry/improvisational jazz group, and resides with her family in Saint Paul, Minnesota.