Kathryn Winograd is the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship, a Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Associateship, and a Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and was awarded a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011 and a Colorado Cook Award in Poetry for Air Into Breath. She is the author of Stepping Sideways Into Poetry. She lives in Littleton, Colorado.