kate evans

After attending a Chagall exhibit in San Francisco, I was deeply moved by the way he portrayed his connection to his wife.  Around that time, my partner (Annie) and I were struggling with the illnesses of our parents, and so my sense of mortality was heightened.  I started thinking about how the longer you love someone, the more you become aware that one of you will suffer the loss of the other.  I wrote a number of poems grappling with these ideas that have appeared in Like All We Love.

Kate Evans' poetry collection, Like All We Love, was published by Q Press in 2006 and has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Lambda Literary Award.  She is also the author of a book on lesbian and gay teachers (Negotiating the Self, Routledge, 2002).  A novel, For the May Queen, is forthcoming.  Born in Northern California, she has lived in Yokohama Japan, Seattle and Santa Cruz.  Currently she lives and teaches in San Jose, California.  www.kate-evans.com.