case sensitive

Kate Greenstreet

An extended bio from the author

I try to stay close to large bodies of water. I was born in Chicago, grew up in the east (NY, NJ, PA), and lived for a couple of decades on the west coast (CA, OR, WA). I’ve moved around a lot, looking for home.

I make various kinds of visual art and currently earn a living doing graphic design. I have a BA from Goddard College in VT, and I received a poetry fellowship from the NJ State Council for the Arts in 2003. I’m married and I like to walk. I have no children or pets. My parents are dead. I have a sister and three brothers living.

case sensitive is my second manuscript. I compressed the first one into a chapbook called Learning the Language, which was published by Etherdome Press in 2005. Right now I’m finishing my third, The Last 4 Things.

Since web design is one of the things I do for work, it was natural for me to build a site for myself when my chapbook came out. It was just a step from there to blogging. I give the blog address (www.kickingwind.com) as my “about the author” on the cover because it’s the best place to get a sense of my interests and concerns.

I love the internet. I’ve had many poems published in online journals (can we have our ball back?, Diagram, Fascicle, Free Verse, GutCult, Kulture Vulture, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, Octopus, TYPO, and Word For/Word among them). I don’t support the notion that print is superior. That said, half of the money I make seems to go on books and journal subscriptions! Print journals that have published my work include 26, Barrow Street, Bird Dog, CARVE, Conduit, CutBank, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, POOL, RHINO, the tiny, and XANTIPPE.

I’m the kind of person who, attempting to write an autobiographical sketch, loses hours picturing childhood streets, the walk to school, the women hanging laundry on the clotheslines stretched between apartment buildings. But this is just a sketch, right? I got the idea from my father that life is a series of books. He often used the expression “That book is closed.”