Kathryn Jones' first full poetry collection, The Solace of Wild Places, explores the wild landscapes of Texas and of the human heart. Crafted, beautiful, and powerful, these poems call for us to re-examine the flora and fauna outside our doors and in some of the most remote and desolate places of the nation. At once environmental and Romantic, The Solace of Wild Places shows readers just how vital these wild spaces are.

Kathryn Jones is a poet, journalist, and essayist whose work has been published in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, and the Texas Observer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including TexasPoetryAssignment.com, Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose (Dos Gatos Press, 2023), Lone Star Poetry (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023), The Senior Class: 100 Poets on Aging  (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024); and in her chapbook, An Orchid’s Guide to Life (Finishing Line Press, 2024), and the forthcoming collection The Solace of Wild Places (Lamar University Literary Press, 2025). She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016 and lives on a ranch near Glen Rose, Texas.

Several poems in this collection first appeared in Texas Poetry Assignment.

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