Katie Jean Shinkle is the author of several books and chapbooks, most recently, THICK CITY (Bull City Press, 2023), and Tannery Bay (with Steven Dunn, FC2, forthcoming 2024). Other work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Foglifter, Crazyhorse, Witness, Gulf Coast, Fugue, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. A 2021 Lambda fellow, she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.