framed by statues of sins and death.
and cancer, her last breath soundless.
passed slowly then, leaving me faithless.
Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, Katie Budris completed her undergraduate work at Hope College in Holland, Michigan and earned her MFA at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Albion Review, After Hours Press, The Kelsey Review, Michigan Avenue Review, and Yellow Medicine Review. She lives in Philadelphia where she is a professor of writing at Rowan University and Community College of Philadelphia. She also serves as Managing Editor of Glassworks Magazine.