Kathleen Hellen

Poet

Baltimore, MD
Maryland US
Website: 
www.kathleenhellen.com/

Author's Bio

Born in Tokyo, half Japanese, Kathleen Hellen has won prizes from the H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review, and Washington Writers’ Publishing House for her collection Umberto’s Night. Hellen’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, The Boiler, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, jubilat, New American Writing, New Letters, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, and West Branch, among others. Her credits include two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Hellen’s latest poetry collection is The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin. She has served on the editorial board of Washington Writers’ Publishing House and as senior poetry editor for the Baltimore Review. With a doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University, she has taught writing and journalism at universities in Maryland and West Virginia.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin (Saddle Road Press, 2018)
,
Umberto's Night (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2012)
Chapbooks:
Pentimento (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
,
The Girl Who Loved Mothra (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
Journals:
2River View
,
2 Bridges Review
,
88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry
,
A-Minor Magazine
,
About Place Journal
,
Adanna
,
Alpha Beat Soup
,
American Letters & Commentary
,
Anderbo.com
,
Anomalous Press
,
Anti-
,
Apalachee Review
,
Appalachian Heritage
,
Artemis
,
Artful Mind
,
Ascent
,
Asia Literary Review
,
Barnwood International Poetry Magazine
,
Barrow Street
,
Barzakh
,
Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review
,
Beltway Poetry Quarterly
,
Berkeley Poetry Review
,
Big Muddy
,
Blue Collar Review
,
Blue Unicorn
,
Bodega
,
Boiler Journal
,
Briar Cliff Review
,
Brilliant Corners
,
Caesura
,
Caliban
,
Calliope
,
Canary
,
Chiron Review
,
Cicada
,
Cider Press Review
,
Clackamas Literary Review
,
Clockhouse
,
Yemassee
,
Cold Mountain Review
,
Collateral
,
Common Ground Review
,
Confluence
,
Conte
,
Cortland Review
,
Crab Creek Review
,
Diode
,
DMQ Review
,
Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
,
Earth's Daughters
,
Eclipse
,
Ekphrastic Review
,
English Journal
,
Evergreen Review
,
Failbetter.com
,
Four Way Review
,
Frogpond
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
Green Hills Literary Lantern
,
H.O.W. Journal
,
Hobart
,
Hollins Critic
,
I-70 Review
,
Ilanot Review
,
Illuminations
,
In Posse Review
,
Innisfree Poetry Journal
,
Iris
,
James Dickey Review
,
Japanophile
,
JMWW
,
Juked
,
Kartika Review
,
Kestrel
,
Kettle Blue Review
,
Lake Effect
,
Lantern Review
,
LEVELER Poetry Journal
,
Louisville Review
,
MacGuffin
,
Main Street Rag
,
Massachusetts Review
,
Memoir Journal
,
Mythium
,
Natural Bridge
,
Nebo
,
Negative Capability
,
Nerve Cowboy
,
New Letters
,
New Madrid
,
Nimrod
,
North American Review
,
Northwest Literary Forum
,
Now & Then
,
Now Culture
,
Off the Coast
,
Oyster Boy Review
,
Pacific Review
,
Painted Bride Quarterly
,
Pank
,
Passager
,
Pebble Lake Review
,
Pegasus
,
phati'tude Literary Magazine
,
Piedmont Literary Review
,
Platte Valley Review
,
Poemeleon
,
Poetry Daily
,
Poetry International
,
Poetry Northwest
,
Point Judith Light
,
Portland Review
,
Potomac Review
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Puerto del Sol
,
Quantum Tao
,
Quiddity
,
Rattapallax
,
Redactions
,
Rhino Magazine
,
Roanoke Review
,
Runes: A Review of Poetry
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Sakura Review
,
Salamander
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Seattle Review
,
Sewanee Review
,
Silk Road
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Slipstream
,
Sliver of Stone
,
SmokeLong Quarterly
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South Carolina Review
,
Southern Humanities Review
,
Southern Poetry Review
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Southwest Review
,
Sow's Ear Poetry Review
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Spillway Magazine
,
Spoon River Poetry Review
,
Stand
,
Storyscape
,
Subtropics
,
Swink
,
Switched-On Gutenberg
,
Tampa Review Online
,
Tar River Poetry
,
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
,
THAT Literary Review
,
The Broome Review
,
The Chattahoochee Review
,
The Drunken Boat
,
The Evansville Review
,
The Potomac Journal
,
Two Review
,
Vallum
,
Valparaiso Poetry Review
,
Verve
,
Visions International
,
Waccamaw
,
Washington Square Review
,
Waxwing
,
Witness
,
WomenArts Quarterly Journal
,
World Literature Today
,
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought
,
Yellow Medicine Review
,
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Prizes won: 

2012 The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, Washington Writers’ Publishing House; 2011 The H.O.W. Journal Poetry Prize; 2007 Recipient Baltimore Arts & Humanities Grant, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts; 2007 Washington Square Review Poetry Prize; 2005 The Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred; 2003 Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council; 1996 and 1994 The James Still Poetry Award; 2012 Finalist Quartet Series, Toadlily Press; 2011 Finalist Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry, The Broome Review and Split Oak Press; 2009 Finalist Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series; 2009 Finalist Best of the Net; 2007 Finalist the Marlboro Prize for Poetry, Marlboro Review; 2007 Finalist Autumn House Book Award; 2006 Finalist Kore Press First Book Award; 2006 Finalist Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest; 2006 Finalist Many Mountains Moving Flash Fiction Contest; 2003 Finalist Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Nimrod/Hardman Awards; 2007 Semi-finalist Nimrod/Hardman Awards.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Tokyo
Japan
Raised in: 
PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Jul 03, 2021