Kate Kingston writes about intimate environments, especially the terrain of Spain and Mexico and the wilderness in the Southwestern U.S., to reveal the complexities, strengths, and resilience of the female spirit. The poems in Shaping the Kaleidoscope resonate with the theme of landscape as integral to the self, how our outer landscapes shape and reveal our inner landscapes.Kate Kingston is the author of In My Dreams Neruda, El Rio de Las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, and Unwritten Letters. She as served as language department chairperson at the College of Eastern Utah and professor of Spanish and writing at Trinidad State College. She lives and writes in Trinidad, Colorado.