Bio

Keetje Kuipers is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (BOA Editions, 2025), winner of the Isabella Gardner Award, and All Its Charms (BOA Editions, 2019), which includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Keetje’s poems appear in American Poetry Review, New York Times Magazine, and POETRY, and her work has been recognized the T.S. Eliot House, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. Previously a vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, Kuipers is currently Editor of Poetry Northwest and co-director of the Headwaters Reading Series for Health and Well-Being. Her home is in Missoula, Montana, on the land of the Salish and Kalispel peoples and directly at the foot of the Rattlesnake Wilderness.