Kay Mullen

Poet Kay Mullen grew up in Iowa and was educated at the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University, where she earned an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Let Morning Begin (2001) and A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam (2006), a book that explores her experience of traveling to Vietnam with her adopted son, a Vietnamese war orphan. In the Valparaiso Review, critic Janet McCann praised the collection’s power to “remind us how personal the losses and devastation of war are and how important each fragile human being is to the scheme of things.”
 
Mullen’s honors include the William Stafford Award from the Washington Poets Association Conference. She has worked as a teacher and a school counselor and lives in Renton, Washington.