Kathryn Kysar is the author of a book of poetry Dark Lake (Loonfeather, 2002) and the editor of a collection of essays, Riding Shotgun:  Women Writing About Their Mothers (Borealis, 2008).  Her poems have been heard on A Writer's Almanac  and published in many literary magazines including Great River Review, Midland Review, Mizna, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Talking Stick.  A winner of the Lake Superior Writer's and SASE  poetry contests, Kysar has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,  the Minnesota State Arts Board, Norcroft, The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.