
Kathryn Gahl’s favorite things (besides words) are cooking, humor, Feldenkrais, open minds, red lipstick, and dancing mad hot ballroom. Her awards include The Hal Prize for fiction and poetry. Her books include Messengers of the Gods (Cornerstone Press, 2022) and The Velocity of Love (Water’s Edge Press, 2020), which received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. “Bluebird” is from The Yellow Toothbrush: A Memoir, forthcoming from Two Shrews Press.