Katherine Riegel

What Life Is Like Here on Earth, out from Sheila-Na-Gig in May 2026, is Katherine Riegel’s fourth full-length collection of poetry. She also has a lyric memoir about grief, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (Cornerstone Press, 2025) and a chapbook of prose poems, Letters to Colin Firth (Sundress, 2015). Her poems appear in Poets Reading the News, Rattle, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Co-founder and managing editor of Sweet Lit, she runs online classes for writers of poetry and short creative nonfiction. Find her at katherineriegel.com and in southern Scotland, where she moved in 2025.