Katherine Mooney Brooks is a poetry and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Image, and Tusculum Review. She was twice the recipient of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Graduate Nonfiction Award, and has also received a 2019 Sewanee Writers’ Conference MFA scholarship in poetry. Brooks is a poetry and nonfiction MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she serves as the Lead Associate Editor Emerita of Blackbird.   

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