Kate Gale

Dr. Kate Gale is a leading light in the literary world recognized for her creative work, critical insights and leadership ability. She is the cofounder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review, an award-winning poet, a fiction writer and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She also served as President of the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles, from 2006-2014.  Dr. Gale teaches in Low Residency MFA programs around the country and is on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation and Poetry Society of America.  Her six librettos include Rio de Sangre, with composer Don Davis, which premiered at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her latest poetry collection is The Loneliest Girl, a testament to resilience, including its limits, a testament to the will to rise above a childhood where a girl has to sit on a seat of shame, and made to believe it is her own creation.