Kathleen Kimball-Baker is a poet and dog-sledding enthusiast in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poems appear in Nimrod International, Poet Lore, The Hopper, Pangyrus, Abandon, Nature of Our Times (poetsforscience.org), two anthologies, and other journals. She's a three-time finalist in the Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series for creative nonfiction and fiction and is compiling a hybrid chapbook about being a biracial Latina dog sledder obsessed with extreme cold and wilderness.