Kathleen KramerKathleen Kramer's early years were spent in Pennsylvania's coal mining and farming region, where life was lived in the midst of a large extended family and influenced by the solidity of the earth and the rhythm of seasons. At 19, she left for the cit and spent five years working in Washington, DC, for the Department of Defense. There followed a three-year stint in Maine where subsistence farming took her back to the land. New York state was the family's next home and Kathy and her husband Jack reared three sons, Andrew, Ian and Kyle, in Northport, a small historical village on Long Island Sound. During that time and over a period of 10 years of balancing classes, family and work, Kathy earned a BA at Empire State College and an MLS at Long Island University. Now, following retirement from the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell, she continues to write poetry and plays, while also supporting, in various roles, The Church of the Epiphany in Trumansburg. Everything Matters, is her third full-length collection, preceded by Planting Wild Grapes in 2016 and Boiled Potato Blues in 2011. Read More Read Less