Kate Light is the author of three volumes of poetry, Gravity’s Dream (2006
Donald Justice Award), Open Slowly (2003), and The Laws of Falling Bodies (1997)
Nicholas Roerich Prize), and the texts of Oceanophony and Einstein's Mozart. She
is also a professional violinist in New York City.

Says Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love: “Kate Light has been one of my favorite poets for years and years now. To my eye and ear, she operates as a full master. . . Her work gives me shivers.”

AS NARRATOR of her pieces, Kate has appeared with the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Louisville Orchestra,
Colorado Chamber Players, and at the American Museum of Natural History in New
York City. Also known for her lively poetry readings, her recent engagements
include the New York Times' Great Read in the Park, Spoleto Festival USA, Dodge Poetry Festival, 3rd Annual DC International Poetry Festival, Interlochen Center
for the Arts, Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, Wordstock Festival at Penn
State University, Woodstock Poetry Festival, Cal State LA, Fairfield, Cornell,
CW Post, and West Chester Universities.

KATE LIGHT'S POETRY has appeared in The Paris Review, Dark Horse, Hudson
Review, New York Sun, Washington Post Book World, Feminist Studies, and many
other publications, and was featured four times on Garrison Keillor's “The
Writer's Almanac”. Her work is included in the anthologies The Penguin Book of
the Sonnet, Western Wind, Poetry Daily, and Good Poems for Hard Times (edited by
Keillor), and her lyrics for the song Here Beside Me are heard in Disney's Mulan
II. She has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University and at the Musashino
Art University in Tokyo.

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