Katie Kemple is a poet based in Southern California. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Beloit Poetry Journal, Ploughshares, and The South Carolina Review. Her debut chapbook Big Man (Chestnut Review, 2025) is available for purchase. Her manuscript Love in the Key of COBRA won the 2025 Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook competition, and is due out in December (2025). Kemple is the recipient of poetry scholarships to La Romita Art School (Italy, 2025) and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (2024).