Border Artist 38

​Kathleen Bunyan Carlson writes a variety of poetry from serious to humorous, and in a variety of forms from sonnets to doggerel. Her content ranges from earthworms making shameless love on a summer day to the pain of losing a child. Kathleen started writing poetry at the age of seven and made writing her profession. She earned a BA in English, MS in Journalism and an MA in Creative Writing. She worked as a technical writer, grant writer and project coordinator for city and county governments, and for a technical college in Wisconsin. She was born on the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. She and her family immigrated to Wisconsin in 1953. She became a U.S. citizen in 1974. She and her husband Vernon live in Palmview, Texas.

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For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. 

The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...