KB Ballentine

KB Ballentine is a poet and English, theatre, and creative writing teacher based in Tennessee, near the Appalachian Mountains. She has taught for more than thirty years and leads writing workshops across the United States. She holds an M.A. in Writing from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Lesley University. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Atlanta Review and North Dakota Quarterly. Her collection The Perfume of Leaving won the 2016 Blue Light Press Book Award, and What Comes of Waiting was also a Blue Light Press Book Award winner in 2013. Her most recent listed book is All the Way Through (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2024).