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.
Towler has written a lovely, careful meditation on [an] unlikely alliance... The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is more than an ode to a singular character, though it is that. It's also an evocation of place – a walkable city with stubborn, old-New England charm, built around a vintage market square, as it comes to terms with its own modern, upscaling impulses.
— Boston Globe