In Lightning Over Wyoming, Kat Cameron's second poetry collection, the poet takes us into her world and beyond with truthful yet empathetic observations of what it means to be young, to be old, to be lost and to be found. As in her first book Strange Labyrinth, she weaves historical figures into a modern sensibility, showing us both the beautiful and ugly threads between then in now. In the collection's title section, Cameron takes us to the Wild West and Buffalo Bill Cody's life after a visit to the town in Wyoming he built. In "Alberta Advantage," another of three sections in thie collection, Cameron contrasts Alberta's stunning mountains and lakes with the crime and sorrow plaguing its oil-rich cities.

Kat Cameron was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick and has worked for two years as an ESL teacher in Japan. Her debut collection of poetry, Strange Labyrinth, was published by Oolichan Books in 2015. Her fiction, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in over fifty journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States, including The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Forage, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, NonBinary Review, Paperplates, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Room, subTerrain, 40 Below: Volume 2, and Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 Years of Al Purdy. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry and FreeFall’s Prose and Poetry contest. She teaches English literature and writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.

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