Kathryn Collison

Kathryn Collison (nee Allen) earned her MFA in poetry from EWU in 2006. Since 2007, she has taught in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico. She teaches humanities, writing and speaking, and fine arts classes. She was also faculty advisor for the award-winning Honors College literary magazine Scribendi in 2007-2008. She serves as an Honors College copy editor and has led staff and student writing workshops. She has also taught creative writing classes online at the University of Phoenix since 2009. Her work has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, New Works Review, and The Furnace Review. Her full-length poetry collection Like Rain Returning Home (which came out of her thesis project) was published in 2018 by FutureCycle Press. She, her husband, and her cousin also founded a water consulting firm, Agua del Sol Consultants, LLC, where she serves as Chief Copy Editor and bookkeeper.