Kathleen Latham is a native Californian who has spent the last thirty-two years in the Boston area.
A native southern Californian, she graduated summa cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles and received an Ed.M. in developmental psychology from Harvard University. She has worked as a rape prevention educator, a child advocate in the criminal justice system, and a freelance college admissions advisor. Along with her son, she founded the Creative Writing Club at Westwood High School and served seven years as the club’s advisor.
Her short fiction and poetry have appeared internationally in numerous online and print journals as well as multiple anthologies. Her debut poetry collection The Ones was published by Kelsay Books in October, 2024.
Awards and Nominations
Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry, Nomination — The Ones, 2025
Best of the Net, Nomination — Brightly, Brightly (originally published in The Ilanot Review), 2024
Bridport Prize, Highly Commended Winner — Anna Wonders Whether Birds Will Build a Nest With Cat Hair, October, 2023
New Flash Fiction Review Flash Fiction Prize 2023, Shortlisted — Men Like Them (Marks Park, Sydney, 1988), July 2023
Fish Flash Fiction Prize, Shortlisted – Rattlesnake, April 2023
The Welkin Writing Prize, Shortlisted – Men Like Them (Marks Park, Sydney, 1988), April 2023
Fractured Lit Anthology Prize, Longlisted – Brightly, Brightly, March 2023
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted – Rats, January, 2023
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Fourth Grade Science Lesson, Chickasaw City, Alabama (originally published at Bath Flash Fiction Award), 2022
Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted – Rattlesnake, November 2022
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Third Place – Fourth Grade Science Lesson, Chickasaw City, Alabama, October 2022
The Masters Review Anthology Competition, Winner – Barely a Sound, August 2022
Oprelle Publications’ “Into Pieces” Poetry Contest, Second Place —When Your Mother Suggests Scrapbooking as a Form of Therapy, March 2022
Best Small Fictions, Nomination – Dolores Tells Charlie She’s Going to the Gym (originally published as winner of Spider Road Press’s Web Microfiction Prize), December 2021
Spider Road Press’s Web Microfiction Prize, Winner – Dolores Tells Charlie She’s Going to the Gym, May 2021
Chestnut Review’s Chapbook Contest, Second Place – Running Into an Ex, July 2020
Stockholm Writer's Festival First Pages Prize, Shortlisted – Givenchy’s Kiss (novel-in-progress), March 2019
Clockwise Cat, Featured poet – Closure; The Difference Between Me and the Published; Obedience; Love vs. Gravity; Will Power; and On Running Into an Ex-Lover. Clockwise Rain, June 2016
Press 53 Open Award in Poetry, Finalist – Cubism, Closure, and On Running Into an Ex-Lover, July 2012
Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers Prize for Short-Short Fiction, Finalist –Private Lessons, April 2012
Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers Prize for Short-Short Fiction, Finalist – They Found Moby, April 2012
The Southeast Review’s World’s Best Short Short Story Competition, Finalist – Two Seconds, April 2008
Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award, Grand Prize Winner – 3:57 (Night Vision), June, 2007