Kathleen Tarr has served as the Program Coordinator for the low-residency MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she has also taught undergraduate creative writing courses. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction; Cirque; America Magazine; 49 Writers blog; Alaska Airlines Magazine; the Anchorage Daily News; and in several anthologies. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh, and is near completion of a nonfiction manuscript about Thomas Merton and Alaska.