Kathleen Maris Paltrineri is a poet and translator from Iowa. She is the recipient of a 2021-2022 Fulbright Fellowship to Norway and a Lois Roth Endowment Award for translation research. Her translation of Norwegian poet Kristin Berget's and when the light comes it will be so fantastic is now available for pre-order from Curbstone Press, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. This translation was supported by a Stanley Graduate Award for International Research and excerpts have appeared in Guernica, Circumference Magazine, Brink, and Poetry in Action.

For her own poetry, Paltrineri has received scholarships and residencies from USF Verftet, Arctic Circle Residency, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Jentel Artist Residency. Paltrineri’s poems have recently appeared in Bone Bouquet, Bennington Review, CALYX, and jubilat. Five poetry light projections from her ARCHIPELEGIES series were exhibited 2023-2024 at Neue Galerie Berlin in “Traces,” a group show by artists, writers, and educators. ARCHIPELEGIES explores converging crises—the pandemic and the climate catastrophe—through the mediums of poetry, photography, and light projection.

She has taught Literary Translation, Creative Writing, and Literature at the University of Iowa; Creative Writing at Cornell College; English as a Second Language at the University of New Hampshire; and Beginning Norwegian Language courses at the Mindekirken Language and Culture Program. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.