Catherine-Esther Cowie is a graduate of the Pacific University low-residency MFA program. Her writing has appeared in The Common, Poetry South, SWWIM, Potomac Review, Southern Humanities Review, Little Patuxent Review, TriQuarterly, West Branch Journal with work forthcoming in Rhino. The line “pinking shame” in Cowie’s poem “An Encounter with Family History” is borrowed from Kwame Dawes’s “City of Bones: A Testament.”
