MARK KANAK is a writer and translator splitting time between Chicago and Berlin. Translations (into English) include: Aquamarine by Peter Pessl (Twisted Spoon, 2006) and Helicopter Hysteria by Heinrich Dubel (Maas Verlag, 2005). Poetry editor for the London-based Stimulus Respond journal.
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).
FAWZI KARIM is a well-known Iraqi poet, writer and painter. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he was educated at Baghdad University before embarking on a career as a freelance writer. He lived in Lebanon from 1969-1972 and has lived in London since 1978. He has published fourteen books of poetry, including a two volume Collected Poems (2000), The Foundling Years (2003), The Last Gypsies (2005), and Night of Abel Alaa (2008). He is also the author of eight books of prose, including The Emperor's Clothes: on Poetry (2000), Diary of The End of a Nightmare (2005), Gods: The Companion on Music (2009).
MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ (1901-1974), was a German poet, short-story writer, essayist, and radio dramatist. Born in Karlsruhe, Kaschnitz grew up in Potsdam and Berlin. After being trained as a bookseller in Weimar, she worked in Munich and in Rome. Thereafter she travelled extensively through the Mediterranean with her archaeologist husband before they both settled in Frankfurt am Main. Among many distinguished prizes, Kaschnitz was honoured with Germany's most important literary award, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, in 1955. She died while visiting her daughter in Rome.
JUSTIN KATKO edits the small press Critical Documents and is completing an MFA in Electronic Writing at Brown University. "Love Poem" is from the longer sequence Drug Flutes (in collaboration with Jow Lindsay). His opera The Death of Pringle is forthcoming from The Press Gang (NYC).
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).
JUDITH KAZANTZIS is a poet, fiction writer and artist. She has published nine collections and her midway Selected Poems (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995) and is a Cholmondeley Award winner. Recent work includes The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer (republished Waterloo, 2010), Just After Midnight (Enitharmon, 2004), and In Cyclops' Cave (Greville Press, 2002), a Homeric translation.
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 was born in 1970 and grew up between California and The Netherlands. An anthropologist by training, he currently edits the literary magazines Full Metal Poem and Retort. Books include: Give Some Word (Shearsman 2010), City Boy (Longhouse 2007), and Lemon Red (Coracle 2005). He lives in Amsterdam with the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers and their children.
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 a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Salford University. Her first collection, The Drier the Brighter, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007. In 2010 Cinnamon will publish her second collection Joy Change. Her doctorate is due to be published in book form as 'Out in the Dark': Edward Thomas's Composing Processes (University of Wales Press, 2009). She also works as a co-translator in Japanese and Frisian.
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 was born and lives in County Kerry, Ireland. His poems, short stories, articles, essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as Cyphers, Poetry Ireland Review, The Sunday Tribune, The Dalhousie Review, Kotaz (South Africa), and Shine (India). His collection Prophesying the Past was published by Salmon in May 2010. He edits Doghouse Books.
JOHN KINSELLA's most recent volumes of poetry are Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful (Picador, 2008) and The Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography (WW Norton, 2008). His other recent books include the critical work Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (Manchester UP, 2007) and the novel Post-colonial (papertiger media, 2009). He is the editor of The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (Penguin, 2009).
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 23 April 1918, in Sunderland, England; died 10 May 2009,
Les Bons, Andorra). 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 was Professor of English Literature at Kyoto University from 1977 until his retirement in 1988.
he then moved to Andorra. His poems were regularly published in the Listener from 1949 to 1965. Poetry Salzburg /
University of Salzburg Press published 16 books, among them Strange Attractors (1995), A Child of the Tyne (1996),
Two German Drama Classics (1996), Burning Giraffes: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1996),
Pikadon: An Epic Poem of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1997), as well as a festschrift entitled Diversions (1998).
All of his books by the University of Salzburg Press are still available.
The Guardian obituary of James Kirkup by Glyn Pursglove and Alan Brownjohn:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/16/obituary
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. 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 has recently published two collections of poetry, The Beach Huts of Port Man'ech (2005) and Bunch of Monads (2007, both Road Books). Her poetry has appeared in Credences, Polyphonix, Angel Exhaust, Shearsman, and Metre. She has also published short fiction, verbal/visual history, a book on Mallarmé, and many artist's books 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.