Katherine Towler

Katherine Towler is author of the memoir The Penny Poet of Portsmouth and the novels Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light. She is also co-editor with Ilya Kaminsky of the collection A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith. She has been awarded fellowships by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she served as the George Bennett writer-in-residence. She teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at Southern New Hampshire University.

Why Do Writers Love Birding So Much?

An Investigation, Featuring All of Your Favorite Bird Lovers

August 18, 2016 By Katherine Towler

How I Met the Poet of Portsmouth

Or, Elegy to a Long Dead Cat Named Zane

March 28, 2016 By Katherine Towler

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