Kate Welsh is a poet, editor, and writer in Brooklyn.

Born and raised along the Mississippi River, she has a BA in English from Barnard College (2013) and an MFA in Poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (2023). She is a co-founder and co-editor of The Swannanoa Review.

Kate’s poetry has been featured in the Greensboro Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Booth, and ONLY POEMS, among other journals. It has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize, and it has been supported by the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Learn more and read her work here. 

Since 2020, Kate has been the director of communications at the Guggenheim Foundation. She leads the rollout of the annual fellowship announcements and spearheads digital communications strategy. In 2025, the Foundation’s centennial year, she helmed its first full-scale rebrand and website redesign. Previously, she worked as a communications lead at multiple start-ups and in editorial at a number of prominent publishing houses. She occasionally takes on projects as a freelance writer, editor, and communications consultant.