DIRECTORY

K.B. Thors is a poet, educator, translator and educator from west of Penhold, Alberta, Canada. Her translation of Stormwarning (Phoneme) by Icelandic poet Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir won the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize and was nominated for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She is the Spanish-English translator of Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else by Soledad Marambio (Ugly Ducking Presse). A winner of the Vallum poetry prize, her poetry and prose has been published across Canada, the U.S., and U.K.. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow in Poetry despite not being a Fellow At All. She has also taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, the Harvey Milk High School for LGBT Youth, the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and the Nordic Language Initiative.

Columbia University, New York, NY 2014
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Concentrations: Poetry (contemporary, international, trans & eco-poetics).
Literature and pedagogies of identity, landscape, gender, art, and pop culture. International literature and translation.

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2009
Honors Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Concentrations: Language, aesthetics, philosophy of the body, nature, and gender.

Longlisted for PEN American Literary Award for Poetry in Translation, 2019

Winner the American Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award 2017