KB Ballentine

KB Ballentine is a poet, author, and writing workshop leader based in Tennessee, where she lives near the Appalachian Mountains. With more than thirty years of experience teaching English, theatre, creative writing, and humanities, she brings a broad literary and educational background to her work. She holds an M.A. in Writing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Lesley University.

Ballentine offers poetry books and conducts writing workshops throughout the United States. Her collections include All the Way Through, Spirit of Wild, Edge of the Echo, The Light Tears Loose, Almost Everything, Almost Nothing, The Perfume of Leaving, What Comes of Waiting, Fragments of Light, and Gathering Stones. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and publications, including Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review. She has also contributed to a wide range of anthologies, among them Women Speak, Writing the Land: Wanderings II, and the Southern Poetry Anthology.