Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry – most recently, Second Opinion (2008). Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies including What Comes Down to Us – 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets; When the Bough Breaks; The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State; Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, and I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists.  She co-edited Crossing Troublesome, Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop and wrote the script for A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann, a documentary film. A two-time recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship in Poetry, she has also received fellowships in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.