Kate Kearns’ first book, You Are Ruining My Loneliness, was published by Littoral Books in summer of 2023. Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Peregrine, Salamander, Portland Press Herald, Sugar House Review, Soliloquies Anthology, and other print and online journals. She was a finalist for the 2024 Charles Simic Prize and Maine Postmark Poetry Prize. She earned her MFA from Lesley University.