kathleen gallagher

Author's Bio

I have an ecclectic and creative life. I am a distinguished senior lecturer of English at the University of Akron/Wayne College, an award winning writer (2007 Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention for a feature article entitled “Cutting Storm,” and a 2011 Honorable Mention for her essay “Flying Objects” in the 2011 Writer’s Digest competition). I am also a poet with works in journals such as South Coast Poetry Journal : Issue #15 (Honorable Mention for “Focal Point” judged by writer/poet James Dickey). A self-taught collage artist, my work “Somewhere,” won honorable mention in the 2001 National Collage Society’s Postcard Contest, “Wishing You Were Here.” A collage entitled “Bone Collage,” is posted in the September 2011 Hospital Drive: The literature and humanities journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. My collage “One Woman,” is now a cover for Pushcart nominee writer Michelle Reale’s book “If All They Had Were Their Bodies,” through Burning River Press, November 2011. I am a former NEOMFA creative writing student at Kent State University. I was a finalist in the First Grand Tournament event through Writing Knights Press which resulted in myfirst poetry chapbook “I See Things are Falling.” At that time, I was nominated for a Pushcart prize in December 2012 through Writing Knights Press. (Photo courtesy of Peggy Honeydew, photographer for poets in Akron/Cleveland area).