Katie Umans lives in New Hampshire with her husband and daughter. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, Columbia, Indiana Review, Barrow Street, and others. She was Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing in 2005-2006. She is the recipient of a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan, a James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review, and a 2010 grant from the NH State Council on the Arts.