Kait Quinn Poetry

Poet & Resource for the Poetry Community

Publications & Awards

Celebrating achievements and literary contributions

πŸ† Awards & Honors

First Place Wins

  • Saint Paul Almanac's 2025 Poetry Contest

    "Upon learning that an angler fish..."

  • table//FEAST's 2025 Nano & Micro Contest

    "Winter Sleeps on My Doorstep"

  • Sad Girl Diaries 2023 Fall Poetry Contest

    "Friendship"

  • 2022 John Calvin Rezmerski Memorial Grand Prize

    "Morning Song"

Nominations & Recognition

  • 2024 Best of the Net Nominations

    Multiple poems nominated

  • 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations

    Three poems nominated

  • 2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination

    "This Is My Art and It Is Dangerous"

  • Richfield Nature Area Poetry Walk

    Poem on display through August 2025

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  • Finalist – 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize – "The Ovary is the Cathedral"
  • 2nd Place – 2023 Stone Gathering Award via NFSPS – "I Don't Want a Fairy Tale"
  • Finalist – The Good Life Review's 2023 Honeybee Prize – "Obit (Strapless Dress)"
  • Honorable Mention – 2023 Stephan A. DiBiase Poetry Prize – "It Was Fall and It Was London for Just One Night"
  • Top 50 Finalist – 2023 & 2022 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards
  • Longlist Finalist – Palette Poetry's 2022 Sappho Prize
  • Honorable Mention – 2021 Heart Poetry Award – "Mind Wanting More"

πŸ“š Recent Publications

APRIL 2025

"I Trigger My Benign Paroxysmal..."

Full House Literary

OCTOBER 2024

"In the Garden of Girlhood"

The Wild Umbrella

JULY 2024

"July at the End of the World"

Exposition Review

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πŸŽ™οΈ Features & Interviews

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