Megan Kaminski

Poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist Megan Kaminski (she/they) is the author of Gentlewomen (Noemi Press, 2020), Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015), and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012). She also wrote two artist’s books: Prairie Divination (Sunseen Books, 2022), an oracle deck accompanied by a book of illustrated essays made with artist L. Ann Wheeler, and Quietly Between (A Viewing Project, 2022), a collection of poetry and photography coauthored with Brad Vogler, Lori Anderson Moseman, and Sarah Green. Her place-based sound, poetry, and art installations have been featured at museums, public gardens, and libraries across the United States, and her poetry and essays are published in literary magazines and journals.

Their social practice includes hundreds of community workshops, two edited volumes of nature poetry and art, place-based poetry walks, as well as community readings, talks, and performances, all centered on cocreating with and within our ecosystems toward community connection, healing, and liberatory futures.

A professor in the English department’s creative writing program and in the environmental studies program with a courtesy appointment in visual art at the University of Kansas, Kaminski works at the intersections of queer ecologies, plant studies, somatics, and ceremony. Her creative work and scholarship is informed by interdisciplinary research in social welfare, plant biology, philosophy, and theology, as well as her previous work in the healing arts and at nonprofit environmental organizations. They live in Lawrence, Kansas.