Gentlewomen

Megan Kaminski is a poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of three books of poetry, Gentlewomen (Noemi Press, 2020), Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012) and two artists books, Prairie Divination (Sunseen Books, 2022), a book of illustrated essays and oracle deck with artist L. Ann Wheeler, and Quietly Between (A Viewing Project. 2022), a co-authored collection of poetry and photography. Her place-based sound, poetry, and art installations have appeared at museums, public gardens, and libraries across the country, and her poetry and essays regularly appear in literary magazines and journals. Her social practice includes two edited volumes of nature poetry and art, as well as hundreds of community workshops, place-based poetry walks, and community readings, talks, and performances, all centered on co-creating with and within our ecosystems towards community connection, healing, and liberatory futures.A Professor in the English Department's Creative Writing Program and in the Environmental Studies Program with a courtesy appointment in Visual Art at the University of Kansas, she works at intersections of queer ecologies, plant studies, somatics, and ceremony. Her creative work and scholarship are informed by interdisciplinary research in social welfare, plant biology, philosophy, and theology, as well as previous work in the healing arts and at non-profit environmental organizations.