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Kathryn (K) Blasco Solér

Ph.D. Student

K. Blasco Soler smiles with hands on hips wearing black and gray with a bag slung over their shoulder. In the near background: Matanuska Glacier, in the far background: the Chugach Mountains in Alaska. K. Blasco Solér is pursuing a PhD in English with research interests in the borderless relations between land, water, and cultural memory. She is informed by an upbringing in Alaska and a background in science writing. She has an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School and a BA in editorial journalism from the University of Washington. She recently completed a collaborative collection of experimental poetry titled Quarter Light, forthcoming in 2025 from Wisdom Body Collective. Her creative manuscript “land | trust” was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her critical, creative, and journalistic work has appeared in Rain Taxi, Bombay Gin, Wild Roof, The Stranger, The Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, and more. K’s teaching experience includes eco-poetics and embodied poetics workshops, and an advanced fiction writing workshop.

Fields of Study:

  • Environmental Humanities
  • Contemporary American Poetry
  • Diasporic Studies
  • Memory Studies

Contact

UF email: kblascosoler@ufl.edu