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Kathlene Postma

Kathlene “Kat” Postma is a professor at Pacific University, in Oregon, where she teaches creative writing, mythology, and folklore. Her work has appeared in several magazines, including The Los Angeles Review, Hawai’i Review, ZYZZYVA, Willow Springs, Blood Orange Review, and Green Mountains Review. She has written a collection of fairy tales for adults and is currently crafting a historical novel that engages with the literary fairy tales of seventeenth-century Italy and France. Founding editor of Silk Road Review, Postma now serves as series editor of New Ground Books, an imprint of Pacific University Press.