Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Born into a military family, Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Texas, Germany, and the Carolinas. ==Career==

Her works include seven poetry collections: ''The Body's Horizon (1996), Beyond Reason (2004), Out of the Garden (2007), Unaccountable Weather (2011), Our Held Animal Breath (2012), Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2014), and The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems (2019). She has also written two chapbooks entitled Looking for Ceilidh and The Master's Wife''. Kirkpatrick places great emphasis on the ethical treatment of animals and explores the ways in which these issues overlap with human societal and cultural conflict. Kirkpatrick has explored feminist and ecofeminist themes within her works, as well as societal perceptions of womanhood as women age. Kirkpatrick is a breast cancer survivor and writes about her experience in her 2011 poetry collection, Unaccountable Weather. She is an English professor at Appalachian State University. Her profile on the university's English Department webpage lists her specialties as poetry and poetics, Irish literature and culture, ecocriticism and ecofeminism, and animal studies. ==Writings==

Poetry • ''The Body's Horizon'', Signal Books, 1996, • Beyond Reason, Pecan Grove Press, 2004, • Out of the Garden, Mayapple Press, 2007, • Unaccountable Weather, Press 53, 2011, • Our Held Animal Breath, WordTech Editions, 2012, • Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful, Clemson University Press, 2014, • “what happened next, happened fast.” North Carolina Literary Review. Iss. 26 (2017). • The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems, Salmon Poetry, 2019, Chapbooks • Looking for Ceilidh, 2004 • ''The Master's Wife'', 2004 Scholarly essays This is a non-exhaustive list. • "'Gentlemen Have Horrors Upon This Subject': West Indian Suitors in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda. Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Vol. 5: Iss. 4, Article 3. pp. 331-348. • "Sermons and Strictures: Conduct-Book Propriety and Property Relations In Late Eighteenth-Century England". History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature. University of Georgia Press (1994). pp. 198-226. • "Putting Down the Rebellion: Notes and Glosses on Castle Rackrent". Éire-Ireland. Irish American Cultural Institute (1994). pp. 77-90. • "Going to Law About that Jointure: Women and Property in Castle Rackrent". The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies: Vol. 22: Number 1. 1996. pp. 21-29. • "The Limits of Liberal Feminism in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda". Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters. University Press of America (2000). pp. 73-82. • "'Between Breath and No Breath': Witnessing Class Trauma in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya. An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. Creighton University Press (2004). pp. 47-64. • "'A Murmuration of Starlings in a Rowan Tree': Finding Gary Snyder in Paula Meehan's Eco-Political Poetics". An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts: Vol. 5: Numbers 1 & 2. pp. 195-207. • "Paula Meehan's Gardens". New Hibernia Review: Vol. 17: Number 2. pp. 45-61. • "Between Country and City: Paula Meehan's Ecofeminist Poetics". Out of the Earth: Ecocritical readings of Irish texts. Cork University Press (2010). pp. 108-126. • “Strand Sonnets.” Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming. Ed. Steven Pavlos Holmes. Salt Lake City, Utah: Torrey House Press. 2013. • "'Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie'". Representing the Modern Animal in Culture. Palgrave Macmillan (2014). pp. 59-79. • "Quick, Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt". Animals in Irish Literature and Culture. 2015. pp. 26-41. • "Othering the Animal, Othering the Nation". Animals in Irish Literature and Culture. 2015. pp. 1-10. • “Calf.” The Carol Adams Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. • "Memory in Paula Meehan's Geomantic". Irish University Review: Vol. 47.1. 2017. pp. 10-14. • "Vegans in Locavore Literature". Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism. 2019. pp. 1-16. • "Ecofeminist Embodiment in the Anthropocene". 2020. Editorial works • ''Belinda (Oxford World's Classics)'', by Maria Edgeworth, 1994, • Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities, 2000, • ''The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale (Oxford World's Classics)'', 2008, • ''Castle Rackrent (Oxford World's Classics)'', by Maria Edgeworth, 2009, • Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, 2015, ==Awards and honors==

She was awarded the N.C. Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Award for her poetry collections, ''The Body's Horizon (1997), Our Held Animal Breath (2013), and Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2015). The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association awarded her with the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize for her poetry collections, Beyond Reason (2004) and The Fisher Queen (2019). Her book, Out of the Garden'' (2007), was a finalist for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association poetry award. == References ==