KATE GALE is Managing Editor of Red Hen
Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers
Forum, LA. She teaches in the Low
Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and
Creative Non-Fiction. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation
and Poetry Society of America. She is
author of five books of poetry and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis
which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in
Milwaukee. Her current projects include a
creative non-fiction book Flight of the
Ugly Duckling, a co-written libretto, Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin
and composer Stephen Taylor, and a libretto based on The Inner Circle by
T. C. Boyle, based on Dr. Kinsey’s life with composer Daniel Felsenfeld.
Welcome, Kate.
— sdh