About the Poet
Kathleen P. Decker is an award-winning poet, fiber artist, physician, and musician. She is President of the Poetry Society of Virginia (2025-2027), past Vice President of the Poetry Society of Virginia, Eastern Region 2019-2025, and past president of the National League of American Pen Women, Seattle Branch. Dr. Decker was a member of the Williamsburg Poetry Guild from 2018-2022, and member of the Haiku Society of America since 1996. She authored poetry books including Russian Reverie, Whispers on Paper, and Essence of Woman, Updraft, and Fishmas: Twelve Days of Christmas by the Sea. Her most recent book of illustrated poetry is The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science (High Tide Publications, 2025). She edited and published an online and print international haiku journal called Chiyo’s Corner and was an editor for the World Haiku Association. She edited three haiku/senryu/tanka/renku anthologies: My Neighbor’s Life (Laughing CyPress, Seattle, WA, 1999 On Crimson Wings (Laughing CyPress, Seattle, WA, 2001), and A Fountain of Dreams (High Tide Publications, 2025). With three other poets, she created a poetry/music/art film Shedding Winter Coats from a 100-line renku. She has edited three anthologies for the Poetry Society of Virginia: Quilted Poems, Views of Virginia, and Blended Voices. Her most recent anthology, Making the Unseen, Seen (High Tide Publications, 2025) is an international ekphrastic anthology about climate change. Her non-fiction publications include the book Fit, Unfit, or Misfit: How to Perform Fitness for Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement Personnel (Thomas, Springfield, IL, 2006) and over 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Dr. Decker is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Region
Eastern
Virginia City or County Affiliation
James City County
Years of Residence in Virginia
18
Current City/State of Residence
Williamsburg, Virginia
Gender
Female
Race/Ethnicity
White
Year of Birth
after 1950
Keywords/Tags
environment, culture, science, mental health
Website
Published Works or Performances
Shedding Winter Coats: a renku movie: YouTube Link
Bibliography:
Russian Reverie (Laughing CyPress, 1999)
My Neighbor’s Life (Laughing CyPress, 1999)
Essence of Woman (Laughing CyPress, 1999)
On Crimson Wings (Laughing CyPress, 2001)
Chiyo’s Corner, (Laughing CyPress, 1999-2002)
Whispers on Paper (Laughing CyPress, 2000)
Quilted Poems (High Tide Publications, 2021)
Updraft (High Tide Publications, 2022)
Fishmas: Twelve Days of Christmas by the Sea (High Tide Publications, 2022)
Views of Virginia (High Tide Publications, 2024)
The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science (High Tide Publications, 2025)
A Fountain of Dreams (High Tide Publications, 2025)
Making the Unseen, Seen (High Tide Publications, 2025)
The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science (High Tide Publications, 2025)
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
1. "Sailfish Hunt" (in Fresh Fish, Studio Art Quilt Associates, 2021)
2. "Doorway to the Universe" (in The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science, High Tide Publications, 2025): Won HM in Jimmye Inez Sessions Memorial Award, 2023, NFSPS
3. "Haiku" (In Haiku Society of America Anthology, 2024)
4. "SHELTER" (In Poetry Virginia 2024 Collected Winning Poems, by The Poetry Society of Virginia, High Tide Publications, 2024)
5. "Fabulous Fractals and Fibonacci Sequences" (in The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science, by Kathleen P. Decker, High Tide Publications, 2025)
Kathleen P. Decker