Cathryn Cofell is the author of Sister Satellite (Cowfeather Press, 2013) and six chapbooks, most recently Split Personality with Karla Huston (sunnyoutside). You can also listen to her on Lip, a CD of her poems set to the music of Obvious Dog. Her work appears in such places as the New York Quarterly, North American Review, Oranges & Sardines, Prairie Schooner and Dirty Napkin and has garnered numerous awards including the Lehman Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Academy Best Poem Award and multiple Pushcart nominations. She's a tireless advocate for poetry, including work with former governor Tommy Thompson to establish the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and serve as its founding and current Chair. She has also served on the board of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and has helped to launch and promote, among others, Verse Wisconsin, the Fox Cities Book Festival, the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective, the WFOP Chapbook Prize and the Harmony Café Poetry Series.