Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Professor of English at Appalachian State University where she teaches environmental literature, creative writing, and Irish studies and co-coordinates the Animal Studies minor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including collections addressing climate change, human illness, and nonhuman animals. Kirkpatrick is the editor of Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (U of Alabama Press, 2000) and co-editor with Borbala Farago of Animals in Irish Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2015). She is at work on Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan for the University of West Virginia Press.