Katherine Hastings

Katherine Hastings, a resident of Santa Rosa, grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco.  Founder of the popular WordTemple Poetry Workshops, Hastings believed that Santa Rosa would support a long-term poetry series if she could bring well-established poets into the area. She began planning for  the WordTemple Poetry Series at the end of 2005 and opened the series to a standing-room only crowd in February 2006 with poets Jane Hirshfield and David St. John. Copperfield's Books in Santa Rosa provides an excellent venue as well as promotional support.

Hastings also hosts a radio program, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa's NPR affiliate, KRCB 91.1 FM. WordTemple airs on the third Wednesday of each month from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. To listen on-line go to http://www.krcb.org

Hastings gives readings frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area and has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies. She also has several chapbooks.  She earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College and serves as a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain – A Journal of Arts and Letters.   For a schedule of her readings, contact her at khastings@wordtemple.com