Kathleen Aguero’s latest book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Press.
She has published several other collections of poetry: After That, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, Thirsty Day, and Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth.
She is co-editor of three collections of multicultural literature: A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare. Recipient of a Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kathleen was also awarded a writing grant from the Elgin/Cox Trust. She has taught at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, the NY State Young Writers’ Program at Skidmore, and in the Poets in the Schools Programs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
She has held positions as Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts and contributing editor at The Kenyon Review.
In addition to teaching in the Solstice low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Lasell University, Kathleen teaches for “Changing Lives Through Literature,” an alternative sentencing program based on the power of books to change lives through reading and group discussion.
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.