Katherine Soniat's fourth collection, Alluvial,
has been published by Bucknell University Press (2001) and is a finalist for The Library of Virginia Center for the Book Award.
A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize given by the University of Iowa Press, and a Virginia Prize for Poetry. She
has been a recipient of the Camden Poetry Prize, Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowships, the William Faulkner Prize,
an Ann Stanford Prize, and a Jane Kenyon Prize for Poetry. Her other collections include Cracking Eggs, Notes of Departure
and a chapbook, Winter Toys. Poems have appeared in such literary journals as The Nation, Kenyon Review,
Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Witness, River Styx, The Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. She lives in
Black Mountain, North Carolina.
