Katherine Hastings

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Katherine Hastings is an American Poet living in Santa Rosa, California.

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Katherine Hastings has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Comstock Review, Roque Dalton Redux (Cedar Hill Press), Rattle, Calyx, California Quarterly, Diner, Birmingham Arts Journal, Potpourri and Parthenon West Review. She earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College and serves as a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain – A Journal of Arts and Letters. Hastings grew up in San Francisco and currently lives in Sonoma County, California, where she founded and hosts the WordTemple Poetry Series, bringing well-established poets together with poets who have not yet published a book of poems. Poets who have read or are scheduled to read in the series include Jane Hirshfield, David St. John, David Meltzer, Diane DiPrima, Jack and Adelle Foley, Ilya Kaminsky, Al Young, Michael McClure, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Kay Ryan and many others.

Hastings hosts a show, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa's public radio station KRCB 91 FM, a PBS affiliate.