Kate Hallett Dayton

Writing

• Salt Heart

  The heart
  turns,
  finds comfort
  in what
  is buried
  and rises,
  plants
  Rose of Sharon.

• Red, First: A Short Short Essay

  If one seeks intimacy, looks closely, reds appear in spring long before greens.

• Renga: A Short Short Story

  That’s just like Pierre, Kobe said. He loved to hang out on the edge. This time the grader backed into the passenger side. She said it all matter-of-factly. Without bitterness. She couldn’t jump, she said. The back was piled too high with luggage. She was right next to the drop off. Pierre couldn’t see the guy backing up just as he tried to streak past. Kobe was silent for a while.

• Keys: A Short Short Memoir

  I hunt through the stack of sailing photos on my office sofa and the pockets of my briefcase at least three times. Caught in the web of phlegm where each breath was arduous, she lifted her head to me, recognized my voice.

• Toxic Garden Sequence

  The next afternoon, opposite
  Sydney’s Peace and Love,
  we dove off the boat
  suddenly surrounded
  with transparent umbrella-like
  bodies, each embossed
  with a white etching
  of a wood poppy blossom.
  Jellyfish, she said, poisonous.
  
  

Photography

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Teaching

ABOUT KATE

Green Fuse Poetic Arts released Kate Hallett Dayton's chapbook, Catalpa, on October 1, 2013. Salt Heart, her poetry collection, was released on April 1, 2013 by Nodin Press. In 2004 Pudding House Publications released her chapbook, Missing. Previously, she received an Award of Merit in the ByLine Press Chapbook Competition and ten poems from Missing earned her a finalist position for the Nimrod International Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. Two poems from Salt Heart appeared in Nimrod's Awards issue in 2012. She received a Nolte-Miller Scholarship in fiction from the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota and an Art in the Wild fiction fellowship from University of California, Davis. She won a Loft Faculty Grant and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, as well as traveled to Belgium on a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant to do research on her novel about two photographers, Parallax. She studied photography with Nadine and Craig Blacklock. She has taught creative writing for COMPAS and the Loft Literary Center, as well as teaching writing, business writing, composition and travel writing at Hamline University, Normandale Community College, Century College and at the University of St. Thomas. She spent one month in residency at the Anderson Center in Red Wing and two-and-a-half months at the Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women in Lutsen.