Katherine Solomon is an American poet.

Biography

Katherine Solomon was born and raised in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and attended college in

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. After living in

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and

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, she met her husband on a commune in

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, moved to the

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, and then back to New Hampshire with him. After years of raising two children and co-owning a business with her husband, she returned to school and earned an MFA from

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in 1996.

Literary career

In 2000, Solomon was the recipient of a NH State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2000. She has been a member of the Skimmilk Poets for ten years, and has published poems in ''

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'', ''The Worcester Review'', the ''Spoon River Poetry Review'', ''Color Wheel'', and other journals and anthologies, and has a chapbook, "Tempting Fate," in the Oyster River Press chapbook series, "Walking to Windward." She taught for several years at the New Hampshire Community Technical College in Claremont, Springfield College, and at Elderhostel. She is working on a Sixties memoir. Solomon's poems have been anthologized in "Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology," and "Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets." She is the author of "Tempting Fate," a chapbook in the "Walking to Windward" series from Oyster River Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Solomon, Katherine Living people American women poets Writers from Portsmouth, New Hampshire Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni Chapbook writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women