Kathleen Winter’s collection Nostalgia for the Criminal Past won the Antivenom Poetry Prize and Texas Institute of Letters 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, AGNI, The New Republic, Gulf Coast, Poetry London and Cincinnati Review. She received fellowships from the Dora Maar House, James Merrill House, Cill Rialaig Retreat and Vermont Studio Center. In 2015 Winter was the Ralph Johnston Fellow at the Dobie Paisano Ranch, owned by the University of Texas. She was awarded the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize in 2014 and the Poetry Society of America The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award in 2016.