Kathy Goodkin

Kathy Goodkin is a poet, scholar, musician, public humanities enthusiast, and all around curiousity-driven person. She is the author of poetry collections Crybaby Bridge, winner of the Moon City Poetry Award, (Moon City Press, 2019) and Sleep Paralysis (dancing girl press, 2017). Her scholarly writing, poems, and criticism have appeared in Bishop–Lowell Studies, Denver Quarterly, Field, The Laurel Review and elsewhere. As an award-winning educator who has worked in universities, prisons, and community settings, Kathy teaches broadly across English and Humanities disciplines with specialties in poetry and poetics, environmental literature, African American and Black women’s activist writing, hybrid genres, and more. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and is completing her dissertation research for a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kathy currently serves as Assistant Professor of English at Bennett College.