Kat Meads’ poetry has been published in Rattle and Gargoyle and is forthcoming from The Southern Poetry Anthology. Meads is the recipient of a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as at Yaddo and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She teaches in Oklahoma City University’s low-residency MFA program.  

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