Katherine Espano lives in Florida with her husband and two children. Her debut poetry collection, The Sky’s Dustbin, won the 2014 Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in many literary magazines, such as The Massachusetts Review, Green Mountains Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Blackbird Review, and Karamu. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Florida. The Infinity Bloom is her first novel.