AROHO Board Member (2006)

Kate Gale, PhD, is the 2005-2006 President of PEN USA, and president of American Composers Forum/LA, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor at The Los Angeles Review, as well as a writer of poetry, novels and librettos. She has founded or co-founded the Red Hen Press, The Los Angeles Review, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, the Geffen reading series, and a "Writers in the Schools" program for underserved communities. She acquired her PhD in literature from Claremont Graduate University and has published four books of poetry, a novel, a bilingual children's book, served as editor of three literary anthologies, and completed the libretto for the opera "Rio de Sangre" by Don Davis. A mother of two, Gale resides in Los Angeles. For more about Kate and Red Hen Press, visit www.redhen.org.

Poetry is a place
Where, when madness occurs
Nobody notices;

Or if they do
It’s called genius.
It’s one of the reasons

I’m so comfortable with poetry.
Other art forms require sanity,
At least in short bursts.

Excerpt from “Tundra Races”