Kathleen Jesme is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Laurel Review, Great River Review, Poet Lore, and The Poet's Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. She makes her living as a self-employed training consultant and occasional poetry teacher and mentor.

Jesme is the author of two books of poetry:

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Motherhouse, 2005, winner of the 2004 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize from Pleiades Press, selected by Thylias Moss and distributed by LSU Press.

Fire Eater, 2003, from University of Tampa Press.