Kathleen McCoyKathleen McCoy is the author of Green and Burning, Glas Agus a Dhó (Word Tech, 2016) and the chapbook Night-blooming Cereus and other poems (Adirondack FemSoul, 2007). She grew up in the Ohio Valley in Rio Grande and graduated from Georgetown Collegeand the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she was a Creative Writing Fellow and earned master's and doctorate degrees in poetry writing and modern literature. After her twin sister took their mother in for seven years, Kathleen cared for her the last seven years of her life. She organizes 100 Thousand Poets for Change at SUNY Adirondack in upstate New York where she also chairs the English Division. She lives with her husband, daughter, and the cats who own them. Read More Read Less