English Chair KB Kinkel Wins Open Chapbook Competition

CSW is proud to share that English Department Chair KB Kinkel is the winner of the 2025 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition for "Blood Machine," an original collection of poems. As winner of this highly sought-after honor, KB will be awarded a cash prize, and his work will be printed and published by Finishing Line Press. 

KB joined the CSW community in 2021. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Prelude, The Rumpus, Poetry Online, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a semifinalist for the Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize (Gasher Press, 2023) and was longlisted for the 2023 Frontier Award for New Poets (2023). He teaches English and creative writing at CSW. 

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