Katherine Soniat's eighth collection of poems—Polishing the Glass Storm— was published by LSU Press in 2022. In May of 2023 her ninth book Starfish Wash-up came out from Etruscan Press. Bright Stranger was published in 2016 by LSU Press. The Goodbye Animals was awarded the 2014 Turtle Island Chapbook Award. A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize and The Swing Girl (LSU Press) was selected as Best Collection of 2011 by the North Carolina Poetry Council. Poems have appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Women's Review of Books, Iowa Review, Poetry, Superstition Review, and The Nation, among others. She has been on the faculty at Hollins University and Virginia Tech, and now lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina.

Other poems by Katherine Soniat in Verse Daily:
October 9, 2012:   "The Monkey Bird" "I say, crow and watch it fly through the pines..."
June 25, 2004:  "Dispersal" "In March I watched the lambs closely..."
August 14, 2003:  "Somnambulist" "It was the animals in dream she tried to save..."
October 4, 2002:  "Fantasia with Love and Death in the Wings" "...saying, eat, this will lighten the body..."

Books by Katherine Soniat:

Other poems on the web by Katherine Soniat:
Two poems
Four poems
"Desire"
"Missing"
Two poems
Excerpt from Island
"Orphan Joy"
"Stay with me"
Three poems
Two poems

Katherine Soniat's Website.

About Polishing the Glass Storm:

"I am in awe of Katherine Soniat's latest collection. Her poetic energies and talents are many and fierce—mystery, imagination, story, knowledge, music, and wonder."
—Dannye Powell

"The weathered grace of Soniat's Polishing the Glass Storm is full of erudition and lived experience rendered into a personal mythology."
—David Lazar

"Soniat speaks like a mystic in her new collection. She travels a landscape of mythology and memory to explore the mystery of existence in ‘thin places' where there is an overlap between the living and the dead."
—Alison Pelegrin

"Soniat has the audacity to create a mythic language for the soul's adventure that is utterly unguaranteed, adamantly open to the unknown. . . . Polishing the Glass Storm is a new departure in American poetry, masterful and visionary."
—D. Nurkse