Katherine Durham Oldmixon‘s poems and photographs appear in many anthologies, online and print journals, and in her chapbook Water Signs (No. 67 in the New Women’s Voices series, Finishing Line Press, 2009).  Katherine is co-director of the Poetry at Round Top Festival, held annually in the rolling hills between Austin and Houston, a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, past president of Austin Poetry Society, a workshop teacher for Writer’s League of Texas, and  a regular moderator for Texas Book Festival.  She has guest-edited special issues of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review ,  Qarrtsiluni and the Ilanot Review. A poet and scholar, Katherine holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from UT-Austin, M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans, and M.A. and B.A. degrees in English from University of Houston.   She has taught for the UNO-low residency MFA program and served on thesis committees for graduate students at St. Edward’s and UNO.  At historic Huston-Tillotson University, she teaches writing and literature and directs the writing program. Katherine gardens in Austin, TX, with her husband, musician and videographer Arturo L. Garza.