Cathy CainPoet and artist Cathy Cain is the author of The Weight of Clouds (2022), A Shape of Sky (2021), and Bee Dance (2019), all from The Poetry Box press. She's additionally published a chapbook, Empty Space Places You (2018) from Finishing Line Press. Cai's honors include the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry, the Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry from Willamette Writers, and a First Place and other citations from the Oregon Poetry Association. Her poetry has appeared in Reed Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Verseweavers, VoiceCatcher, and in /pãn dé mïk/ 2020: An Anthology of Pandemic Poems.Cain is a two-year Poets Studio alumna and an Atheneum Fellow, both at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon. She has studied with visiting poets hosted by Portland's Literary Arts and at the Mountain Writers Series. Cain holds degrees in literature and visual art from Lewis & Clark College, MAT; Oregon State University, BFA; and University of Washington, BA, Phi Beta Kappa. She has also studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Read More Read Less