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Kathryn (K) Blasco Solér

Ph.D. Student

K Blasco Soler stands beside a pale blue and silty glacial formation atop Atop Matanuska Glacier. K is smiling with hands on hips and wearing a gray sweater and shoulder bag. K. Blasco Solér is completing a PhD in English with research interests in contemporary North American poetry, environmental humanities, cultural memory, and psychoanalytic studies. Her writing and teaching are informed by an upbringing in Alaska and a background in science writing. K’s current work, “land | trust,” was a 2023 finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. A chapbook of poetry based on the reemergence of the gray wolf in the Southern Rockies titled “wolf | mother | daughter” and a collection of collaborative conceptual poetry titled “Quarter Light” is forthcoming in 2025. K holds 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.

Fields of Study:

  • Environmental Humanities
  • Cultural Studies
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Psychoanalytic Studies

Contact

UF email: kblascosoler@ufl.edu