Kathleen S BurgessKathleen S. Burgess grew up in Urbana, Ohio, with a love of music and writing. At Ohio State University, she attended teach-ins advocating social justice and joined anti-war protests. Following the 1970 Kent State shootings, she joined boyfriend A33;Ted� in Washington, D.C., where above their apartment by the zoo, a Salvadoran family told of struggles to escape poverty and death.

She and Ted began hitchhiking to South America. Along the way, people sheltered them often in homes without electricity and running water. Ted played guitar while Kathleen collected handmade wind instruments. Artisans taught her tunes she played on those and her silver flute. Her passion for music became a vocation�later teaching students, pre-school through adult in OSU�s Creative Arts Program and in public schools in Columbus and Chillicothe, Ohio, where she and husband Jack raised a son and daughter.

After writing poetry for years, she met poet-publisher Jennifer Bosveld and now co-leads Salon Columbus, and workshops with Bistro Poets. She serves as senior editor at�Pudding Magazine, and her poems appear in a wide range of literary journals. A book of poems�The Wonder Cupboard�is forthcoming in 2019. This is her first full-length book.�

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