awards & honorable mentions
3rd Place – Saint Paul Almanac‘s 2025 Poetry Now, Poetry Forever Contest – “Upon learning that an angler fish is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand”
1st Place – table//FEAST‘s 2025 Nano & Micro Contest for Women Writers – “Winter Sleeps on My Doorstep”
2024 Best of the Net Nominations – “July at the End of the World” (Exposition Review); “Like Has a Surprise for You” (After Happy Hour Review)
Finalist – 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize – “The Ovary is the Cathedral”
1st Place – Sad Girl Diaries 2023 Fall Poetry Contest – “Friendship” (after Chen Chen)
2023 Pushcart Prize nominations – “Somewhere, We Bare Our Breasts and Live” (engine(idling) and “I Want You Like a Whole Pack of Cigarettes in One Night” (Ink & Marrow Lit)
2023 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations – “In Which I Look Both Ways Before Getting into Speeding Cars” (Gnashing Teeth Publishing)
1 of 10 poets selected for Mississippi Valley Poets & Writers’ Richfield Nature Area Poetry Walk – “Little Prayer” (after Danez Smith) is on a plaque in Richfield Lake Park through August 2025
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
1st Place – 2022 John Calvin Rezmerski Memorial Grand Prize in The League of MN Poets’ 37th Annual Poetry Contest – “Morning Song”
2022 Pushcart Prize nomination – “This Is My Art and It Is Dangerous” (Reed Magazine)
Longlist Finalist – Palette Poetry‘s 2022 Sappho Prize
Honorable Mention – 2021 Heart Poetry Award – “Mind Wanting More” (published in HEART, December 2021)
selected publications
“Booked a Three-Night Stay in Innity,” Gather Poets, June 2025
“I Have Spoiled This Body We Once Shared,” wildscape., Issue 2, April 2025
“I Trigger My Benign Paroxysmal Transitional Vertigo,” Full House Literary, Featured Creator, April 2025
“In the Garden of Girlhood” and “On This Fresh Morning in the Broken World,” The Wild Umbrella, October 2024
“July at the End of the World,” Exposition Review, Vol. IX: POP!, July 2024
“The Mysterious Human Heart in Texas,” Zero Readers, March 2024
“Excavation,” Verdant, February 2024
“When a Witch Desires Something That is Not Hers, She Will Slip it Into Her Glove,” Sage Cigarettes Magazine, September 2023
“Obit (Strapless Dress)” (after Victoria Chang), The Good Life Review, Micro Monday segment, August 2023
“Use This Poem to Dry Your Eyes,” Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 32, August 2023
“In Which I Look Both Ways Before Getting into Speeding Cars,” Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem of the Day, April 2023
“Hot Girl Shit,” The Aurora Journal, Winter 2023 Volume, February 2023
“I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” Watershed Review, Volume 45, Number 02, Fall 2022
“I Only Want Him When He Smells Like Whiskey & Camels” & “What The Aftermath Might Have Looked LIke Had I Not Stepped Out of that Cab,” Roi Fainéant Press, October 2022
“I Miss Writing Poetry” & “I’m Afraid of Everything That Wants Me,” Vulnerary Magazine, Fall 2022: WITHER, September 2022
“Wrought Iron Fence to the Heart, or the Summer I Lost My Virginity,” Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 28, August 2022
“In Defense of the Boy Who Made Heartbreak Hurt Like a Hangover,” Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poem of the Day, April 2022
features & interviews
Interview with Gather, Gather Poets, June 2025
“Q&A with poet Kait Quinn,” The Wild Umbrella, October 2024
“Interview with Kait Quinn,” Free Verse Revolution, Issue IV: Hades, Winter 2021
“Featured Writer” New Literati, Spring 2015