Katherine Towler is author of a memoir, The Penny Poet of Portsmouth, chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Entropy Magazine, and the novels Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island Light, a trilogy set on a fictional New England island. With Ilya Kaminsky, she is co-editor of A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith, a collection of interviews with Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and atheist poets.