Ever since her hands could hold a pencil, Katherine has been composing poetry - from small rhyming couplets as a child to complex sestinas while attending Duke University as an English-Classics double major with a Women’s Studies minor and a Creative Writing concentration.

A number of years after graduating Duke, attaining a Masters and a PhD degree, she submitted a poem, on a whim, to the Belfast Poetry Festival and was invited to come to the festival and read her poem. That was the starting point for Katherine’s career as a poet. From there she joined the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance where she saw the call from Littoral Books for women poets to submit poems to the anthology Balancing Act.

After being accepted and published, she began a circuit of poetry readings and was eventually asked by Littoral Books if she had a manuscript. The rest, as they say, is history. Katherine’s first book, Mast Year, was published in 2020 by Littoral, followed by LandTrust, published in 2022 by NatureCulture and Orbit, published by Toad Hall in 2023.

Katherine has appeared in many literary magazines and websites including MER, WildRoof, Rust & Moth, Café Review, SWWIM, and Feral, in the Portland Press Herald, on Maine NPR and in multiple anthologies. She has appeared in the Café Review, Enough: Poems of Resistance and Protest, A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, Glass: Poet's Resist, and been a finalist and showcase performer at the Belfast Poetry Festival. She is also a poetry reader for The Maine Review.

Katherine’s newest book, Handfast is about love: the putting of your hand in mine, the never letting go. Fireflies and ravens, woodfrogs and eels, mothers and children, ancestors and inheritors. With poems embracing her extended time in Arizona and others her home state of Maine, Handfast celebrates the infinite richness of communion. Poems face each other across the page: one a little more “sinister", one a little more “dexterous", but coming together to celebrate all the different ways we can cherish both each other and our fragile world.