Kate Buckley's poems have been published in The Heartland Review, New Southerner, Slipstream and Spillway, among other journals, and in the book "Tide Pools: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry." She was a 2007 finalist for the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, the 2007 winner of the Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing for poetry, and the 2008 winner of the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize. Buckley is also a classically trained painter; her work has been privately collected and published in journals such as The Adirondack Review and purchased by such entities as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A ninth-generation Kentuckian, educated at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, Buckley now lives with her husband in Laguna Beach. A Wild Region is her first book.