Kathy Skaggs

Kathy Skaggs is the author of The Poet Laureate of People Who Hate Poetry from TimeBarn Books. Her work has been published in two anthologies in the Kentucky Feminist Writers Series as well as in literary journals throughout the country. In 2005 she received a Mary Renshaw Award from the Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Victim Advocacy from the National Crime Victims Law Institute in recognition of her more than twenty-five years of work on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence. She is a recipient of two Art Meets Activism grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, a Professional Development grant from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an Emerging Artist Support and Encouragement (E.A.S.E.) grant. She lives in the Maple community of Taylor County, Kentucky.