Kathleen Hellen’s debut collection Umberto’s Night won The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the author of three collections and three poetry chapbooks, most recently from Lily Poetry Review Books, young girl in the flower of time.
Hellen’s poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Faultline, Four Way Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her poetry has won the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review.
