I write out of the consciousness that I am both a product of the violence of war and a migratory being—not only in the strictest sense of physical displacement, but also in belonging.
JoinedJuly 12, 2024
Born in Tokyo, half Japanese, Kathleen Hellen is an award-winning poet with three collections including Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umberto’s Night, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work is widely published and has appeared in such journals as Asia Literary Review, Frogpond, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Hawai’i Review, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, leaping clear, The Margins, Nimrod International Journal, Poetry International, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Valley Voices, Witness, and World Literature Today. She lives in Baltimore.
