BYRON KANOTI graduated from Beloit College in May 2000 with a BA in creative writing. He is currently living east of Cleveland, Ohio in the village of Chagrin Falls. In addition to writing and painting he is looking to find the right MFA program in order to continue his education in poetry.
JEANETTE KARHI has recently received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where she was awarded a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching/Writing Fellowship, and was nominated for Poetry's Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in several magazines, most recently in River Styx (Fall 2004).
JENNIFER HILL KAUCHER lives in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, with her husband and eight-year-old daughter Helen. She is vice-president of the Mulberry Poets and Writers Association, and is a rostered poet with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Yarrow, The Endless Mountains Review, The Mad Poets Review, and Hedge Apple.
PARM KAUR was born in the Black Country, daughter of Punjabi immigrants, and is currently based in London. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 & 4 and will be broadcast on BBC 2 television in 2005. She has received international fellowships from the Hawthornden and the Ledig Rahoult Foundations. Her pamphlet Inside the Fourth Dimension was published in April 2004 (Greenwich Maritime Museum/Royal Observatory).
NANCY RYAN KEELING lives with her husband in Cypress, Texas. She is a multimedia artist and has twice exhibited at the MOCHA gallery in Oakland, California. Her play Hail Holy Mother took first in dramatic writing at the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference. In summer 1997 she was writer-in-residence at New Light Studios in Beloit, Wisconsin. Her short story "Black Powder" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in April 1999. Estrogen Power was published by Red Dancefloor Press in June 1999.
CRALAN KELDER is a Dutch poet who writes in English. He is based in Amsterdam, and has had a small book, Lemon Red, published by Coracle (2005). He is Poetry Editor of the magazine Versal.
AILEEN KELLY grew up in England and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. In the last few years, she has spent some time in Ireland, initially on a visit funded by the Vincent Buckley Poetry Award (University of Melbourne). Her first collection, Coming Up For Light (Pariah Press) won the Mary Gilmore Award, the best-first-book-of-poetry award from the Association for the Study of Australian Poetry, and was short-listed for both the Anne Elder Award and the Victorian Premier's Poetry Award. A second collection is imminent.
JUDY KENDALL is researching into the process of creating poetry at the University of Gloucestershire where she also lectures in creative writing. She has spent over six years as an English lecturer at Kanazawa University, Japan, where she worked with classical Japanese scholar, Iris Elgrichi, translating haiku, Noh and kyogen. Her poetry and reviews have been published in magazines such as PN Review, Stand, and Ambit.
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL is the author of five books, including the poetry collection, World as Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon UP) and Space (Algonquin Books/Penguin), a memoir about growing up in Florida during the moon race. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the U.K., Australia, and the United States in such magazines as London Magazine, Ambit, the Southern Review, and the Yale Review among others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
MIMY KINET was born in the Ardennes and died in 1996 at the age of 48. She was 40 when she published her first pamphlet. In 1992 she took on the editorship of regArt publishing 26 issues before her death. She was also a translator of Greek poetry. Selected bibliography: Hypogées (1991), Le discours du muet and Fables du mardi (1994), Poésie (Œuvre complète) (1998).
DANIEL KING has had poetry published in a number of magazines and journals, most recently The London Magazine.
NOEL KING is a full-time writer and storyteller, born and living in County Kerry. He is also part of a performing duo, King & Keane.
JOHN KINSELLA's most recent volumes of poetry are Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (WW Norton, 2003) and Doppler Effect: Collected Experimental Poems (Salt, 2004). Norton published his The New Arcadia in July 2005. He is Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio, and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University.
ESTHER KINSKY was born in Cologne in 1956 and studied Slavonic languages. She is a writer and translator working in English and German and also translating from Russian and Polish. Her translations include poetry by Alexander Wat, Ryszard Krynicki, Julian Kornhauser and prose by meta merz, Magdalena Tulli, Alexander Wat, and Olga Tokarczuk. She has contributed to magazines such as Liber, Stand and Poetry in Translation. Her most recent publication as a writer is Or So It Seemed (Sunderland 2002, in collaboration with the photographer Gerhard Stromberg). She lives in London.
PAULINE KIRK's published work includes two novels, Waters of Time (Century Hutchinson 1988, Ulverscroft 1991) and The Keepers (Virago 1996 and 1997), and seven collections of poetry, her latest being Walking to Snailbeach: New and Selected Poems 2004 (Redbeck Press, 2004). Partner in Fighting Cock Press, and editor of local history and social studies booklets. Appeared at many venues, including Cheltenham, Lancaster and Ilkley Festivals. Formerly employed as a Senior Officer with Leeds Social Services, received a 'New Beginnings' Award from Yorkshire Arts (1994/5) to become a full time writer. Born in Birmingham and moved to York in 2002.
JAMES KIRKUP. Born 23rd. April, 1918, in Sunderland, England. British poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and broadcaster. Went to South Shields High School, and then to Durham University. He held an academic post in Leeds University (1950-52), and then from the 1960s he held academic posts in Japan. He became Professor of English Literature at Kyoto University. His poems were regularly published in the Listener from 1949 to 1965. Poetry Salzburg / University of Salzburg Press has published 16 books among them Strange Attractors (1995), Pikadon: An Epic Poem of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1997), A Child of the Tyne (1996), Two German Drama Classics (1996), and Burning Giraffes: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1996), as well as a festschrift entitled Diversions (1998).
HOLGER KLEIN, born 1938, has taught English (and, for a long time, Comparative) Literature in Cologne, Norwich, Poitiers, and Salzburg. He has been active in the fields of Renaissance Poetry, editing English and Scottish Sonnet Sequences of the Renaissance (1984), early prose fiction, organising a CD-ROM of the novel 1500-1700, of Shakespearean Studies, with critical editions and translations of Hamlet (1984) and Much Ado About Nothing (1992; Henry IV is in preparation), furthermore the field of committed literature, editing The First World War in Fiction (1976) and The Second World War in Fiction (1984); one of his special interests is J. B. Priestley, on whom he published J. B. Priestley's Plays (1988); another monograph, J. B. Priestley's Prose Fiction is in the press.
WILHELM KLEIN was born in Vienna in 1941. He left Austria in 1962 and was involved as a publisher and activist in what was later called the 1968 student revolution. His entire life was one of traveling, writing and publishing. 20 years ago he settled on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand and co-founded a Thai language publishing company that is dedicated to travel, language and education.
PHILIP KOBYLARZ has published in a wide variety of literary journals such as Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, Iowa Review, and Colorado Review. He is currently a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Idaho State University where he teaches courses on European Writing and Culture.
INES KOGLER, born 1974 in Saalfelden (Austria), is studying English and German at the University of Salzburg. She has just completed her thesis on Contemporary Scottish Poetry, concentrating on the work of four women poets (Tessa Ransford, Anne MacLeod, Jackie Kay and Kathleen Jamie). The interview with Ransford was conducted during a research stay in Edinburgh in winter 2001.
IGOR KOLAROV was born in 1973 in Belgrade, Serbia. He is the author of five books.
STEPHEN KOMARNYCKYJ is a British Ukrainian who lives and works in Yorkshire and visits his family in Ukraine every year. He has had poems published in North and Echo Room.
VIRGINIA KONCHAN is a student in the Midwestern United States. She writes poetry and fiction.
KORNEL KOSSUTH is of Hungarian extraction, was born near Hamburg, grew up in Norfolk and Vienna and is now an attorney in Vienna. He has published poems in England and Ireland, most notably in The SHOp, Acumen and The Poet's Voice.
JUDY KRAVIS's poetry has been published recently in Volume, Angel Exhaust, Shearsman and Metre. Her fiction has been published in The Dublin Review, Phoenix Irish Short Stories, Global City Review and Fish Short Stories. She has also published artist's books and verbal/visual histories with Peter Morgan. She lives in County Cork, Ireland.
STEVIE KRAYER lives in rural West Wales, having given up her job as an administrator at London University to have more time for writing. Her translation of R. M. Rilke's Das Stundenbuch (The Book of Hours) and a collection of her poetry, Voices from a Burning Boat have since been published by the University of Salzburg Press. A second collection is in the pipeline.