In and around the edges of Metropolitan Seattle, Kathryn Rantala searches for the sublimely eccentric and well-crafted writing she and consulting editor Christiel Cottrell hope to publish in their magazine, Snow Monkey (Ravenna Press, PO Box 127, Edmonds, WA 98020.) A mossed and gloomy native Seattleite, Rantala has published poetry and prose for more than 30 years, in both print and online magazines, in a chapbook, The Dark Man, reprinted in 2000, a collection of prose and poetry, Missing Pieces, published by Ocean View Press (PO Box 102650, Denver, CO 80250), and a book of short prose, The Plant Waterer. A selection of her prose and poetry, Omnivory, is due from Alhambra Press in 2006, and she is co-editing Butterfiles of Vertigo, a book of "outstream" fiction with Madhatter's Review editor Carol Novack. Among other honors she was a 2003 screener for the William Stafford Prize, a reader for the Washington Poetry Association Annual Competition in 2005, and a lyricist for Erik Satie (see below).
Her interests can be summed up in one
word: omnivory.
