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Cathy
Kodra
Cathy Kodra is a native New Yorker who now lives, writes, and edits in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her passion for writing began when her second grade teacher told her to write a poem. Before that, Cathy hadn’t realized that people other than “famous authors” were allowed to write poems or stories. She has never stopped writing since.
Cathy’s poems,
short stories, and essays have been published or are pending publication
in the following literary journals or anthologies:
Lynx Eye, Tar Wolf Review, Beginnings, New Millennium Writings,
Birmingham Arts Journal, Roanoke Review, Main Channel Voices, Common Ground
Review, Still Crazy (July 2010), The
Medulla Review (July 2010), Now
& Then: The Appalachian Magazine (Winter
2011), Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers,
and Christmas in Knoxville 2007. She won first
place in the 2008 Libba Moore Gray/Terry Semple Poetry Contest, was a finalist
in the New Millennium Writings January 2009 Poetry
Contest, was a finalist in the Two Rivers Review
2004 Poetry Contest, received an Honorable Mention for Glimmer
Train’s 2009 Short Story “Family Matters”
Contest, and her short story, “The Most Interesting Thing in the World,”
was nominated in 2009 for a Best American Short Stories award. Cathy is
co-editor of Bleeding Hearts: A Sampling of Poems
from the Poetry Workshop of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild (Tellico
Books, 2009) and edited Waltzing in Triolet: A Snapshot of Creation
(Phil Lowe, 2008). She is a contributing editor for New Millennium
Writings and the current secretary of the
Knoxville Writers’ Guild Board of Directors.
Cathy’s passions, along with writing, include reading, cooking, crocheting, and gardening. She happily works part time as an adult education teacher for Knox County Schools and the rest of the time as a freelance editor with ridiculously low rates www.cathykodra.com.