Kathleen Dale was born in Kansas, though she has lived on the shore of Lake Michigan for many years with her husband, Steve Kapelke. They have three grown daughters. She is a serious amateur pianist and has always seen an intimate connection between music and poetry. Her blog on her website (www.kathleenanndale.squarespace.com) chronicles the process of creating both poetry and musical performance. A Pushcart nominee, Dale is also the recipient of several prizes and best-in-issue awards for her poems, which have appeared in over thirty journals. She was nominated for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2014, and in Spring, 2013, was featured poet in The Centrifugal Eye's "Sinkhole: Drowning or Surviving-Themes on Coping in Poetic Form." Her previous works include Ties that Bind (Finishing Line Press, 2006), Rescue Mission (Antrim House Press, 2011), and Avatars of Baubo (Green Fuse Press, 2013), all of which are available on her website.