Kate Rogers won first place in the subTerrain magazine Lush Triumphant Contest for her five-poem suite, “My Mother’s House.” Her poetry also appeared in Where Else? An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology. Kate’s poem “The Giraffe-bone Knife Set” was short-listed for the ROOM magazine Poem of the Year. “John and the Book of Kells” won first prize in the Book of Kells Contest at Trinity College Dublin. In 2019 Kate re-patriated to Canada after teaching in mainland China and Hong Kong for two decades. Kate is a former director of Art Bar, Toronto’s oldest poetry series.