
Kate Bolton Bonnici
Biography
Kate Bolton Bonnici received her PhD in English from UCLA and her MFA in poetry from UC Riverside. Prior to that, she earned a JD from NYU and practiced law for a number of years in California and in Alabama. Dr. Bonnici’s debut poetry collection, Night Burial, won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Georgia Review, Image, CounterText, Tupelo Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Arts & Letters, Foundry, Exemplaria, and elsewhere.
Dr. Bonnici is also an assistant nonfiction editor at Tupelo Press. Her current book project is situated at the crossroads of criticism and poetry. Through various critical-creative modes, she explores 16th- and 17th-century English printed pamphlets on witchcraft, witch beliefs, and the early modern witch trials, together with archival materials on medicine, religion, and aging.
Education
- PhD, UCLA
- MFA, UC Riverside
- JD, NYU Law