Kait Quinn is a Texas-born, Minnesota-based poet and editor. She is the author of five poetry collections, and her work been published in After Happy Hour Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Exposition Review, Full House Literary, Reed Magazine, Watershed Review, and other literary journals and anthologies. Kait received first place in table//FEAST Literary Magazine’s 2025 Nano & Micro Contest for Women Writers, the 2024 Southeastern MN Poets Award, Sad Girl Diaries’ 2023 Fall Poetry Contest, and the League of MN Poets’ 2022 John Calvin Rezmerski Memorial Grand Prize. She has also been a finalist or honorable mention in various other contests.

Kait earned her B.A. in English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and continues to hone her craft by regularly participating in writing classes and workshops, including Megan Falley’s “Poems That Don’t Suck” and Carrie Fountain’s “Leap & Practice.” She’s also had the honor of learning from and working with poets Amy Kay, Melissa Sussens, Nikki Allen, Sonya Lara, Chrissy Williams, and Rebecca Jamieson, among others.

Kait released her debut poetry collection, A Time for Winter, in February 2019 and has published five books since, including her most recent collection, Blue Rose (2024), inspired by the TV series Twin Peaks.

Written in a blend of narrative, lyrical, and form styles, Kait’s poetry touches on such topics as mental health, relationships, heartbreak, healing, and the mundane (but make it poetry). She finds inspiration from prompts, pop culture, and other writers and art forms. Kait often weaves nature into her poems and loves creating intricate, visceral imagery that hits readers in all the senses. She is currently plunged in a deep-dive into her late teen/young adult romances and traumas.

Kait is also a freelance poetry manuscript copyeditor/proofreader, an editorial associate at Yellow Arrow Publishing, and a former poetry reader for Black Fox Literary Magazine. She enjoys cats, repetition, coffee shops, reading, tattoos, ghost stories, and vegan breakfast. Kait lives in Minneapolis with her partner and their very polite Aussie mix.