Ballentine’s fifth collection, Almost Everything, Almost Nothing (Middle Creek Publishing), was published in the summer of 2017. The Perfume of Leaving won the 2016 Blue Light Press Book Award. Published in many print and online journals, her work also appears in River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-first Century (2015), Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (2013) and Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets (2011). Ballentine received her MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She currently teaches high school theatre and creative writing and adjuncts for two local colleges. More info can be found at www.kbballentine.com. She attended the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop in 2015.