Kathleen Jesme is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Pleiades, Babel Fruit, Coconut, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Laurel Review, Great River Review, Conduit, Poet Lore, and The Poet's Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales.

Jesme is the author of three books of poetry:

The Plum-Stone Game, 2009, from Ahsahta Press.

Motherhouse, 2005, winner of the 2004 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize from Pleiades Press, selected by Thylias Moss and distributed by LSU Press.

Fire Eater, 2003, from University of Tampa Press.