Kate Ballantyne holds an MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was awarded the first-year creative writing fellowship and acted as associate editor of Blackbird. She also holds an MA from Western Washington University, where she served as a poetry editor for the Bellingham Review. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Drunken Boat, Harpur Palate, and MiPoesias, among other journals. Currently, she works as the associate creative director for Providence St. Joseph Health.