Katie Dozier’s love of poetry began in elementary school, when she memorized Frost in between climbing magnolia trees and kicking around a soccer ball. Born in Miami, Florida, her childhood led her to Kentucky, Michigan, Georgia, and Cocoa Beach—where she graduated high school and tried to become an opera singer.

While studying poetry at Florida State University, KHD became a professional poker player, and later attended culinary school. In addition to books about poker and a YA series, Katie is the author of Residency Review: A Memoir in Verse, All That Glitter (winner of The Poetry Box’s 2025 Editor’s Choice Award), and Watering Can (Alexandria Labs). She’s the co-author of Hot Pink Moon: A Crown of Haibun, and Did You See the Moon Honey (longlisted for the Haiku Foundation’s Distinguished Books Touchstone Award) with her husband, Timothy Green.

KHD is the creator of  the top-rated podcast The Poetry Space_, the haiku editor for ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, and creative editor at Rattle. She lives with her husband in The Woodlands, Texas, with their four children, a new magnolia tree, and too many books. Katie loves long conversations about short poems even more than macarons.

She can be reached at [email protected].