Kathy Shorr grew up in Mount Healthy, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee. She’s spent most of her adult life near the tip of Cape Cod. She earned an MFA in writing from Vermont College. Her work has appeared in literary magazines, newspapers, on her local NPR station, and in the 2023 Harbor Stage Company playbill. She is the 2024 regional winner of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest.