K.L. Barron is a writer of place: poetry and prose. She earned an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. Her prize-winning fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction has been published in New Letters, The Bennington Review, Little Balkans Review, terrain.org, ChickenBones (Library of Congress), among others, and in several anthologies. She teaches writing and literature at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and lives and writes in the Flint Hills. Follow her blog on WordPress.