Kathryn Rantala is the author of 3 Letters & Julius (2018) and The Finnish Orchestra (2013), and others. Her extensive assortment of journal credits includes The Notre Dame Review, The Denver Quarterly, 3rd Bed, Cake Train, elimae, Alice Blue, New Orleans Review, Archipelago, Drunken Boat, The Oregon Review, Raven Chronicles, Diagram, Pear Noir!, Big Other, and, in Paris, Upstairs at Duroc. She was nominated in 2022 for a second Pushcart Prize and has five poems included in the Big Other Anthology 2022. Her short story, "Metropolitana," received the LitPot Short Story Award, judged by Walter Cummins, and at one time she held the title for most lifetime nominations for the Rhysling Poetry award. A past reader for the William Stafford Poetry Award and the Washington Poets Association contest, she is a long-time resident of Edmonds, Washington, where she founded Ravenna Press and the journals Snow Monkey (with poet Christiel Cottrell) and The Anemone Sidecar.
