K. D. Rose is an eclectic poet, author, analyst, thinker. K. D.’s book, Inside Sorrow, won Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Poetry. In 2017 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have been published in Word Riot, Chicago Literati, Poetry Breakfast, BlazeVOX Journal, Ink in Thirds, Northern Virginia Review, The Nuclear Impact Anthology, Stray Branch Magazine, Literary Orphans, Maintenant Contemporary Dada Magazine, The 2016 Paragram Press Anthology, The Eastern Iowa Review, Lunch Ticket Arts and Literary Magazine, Bop Dead City, Santa Fe Literary Magazine, Hermes Poetry Magazine, Slipstream, Wild Women's Medicine Circle Journal and The Offbeat. She also won an Honorable Mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Poetry Contest. Her last release was DreamPoem. She has a B.S. in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Social Work and worked as an analyst for Dept. of State and Homeland Security.