Background
Katherine Hauth was born on November 13, 1940 in Flint, Michigan, United States.
Katherine Hauth received a Bachelor of Arts in English at Marquette University in 1962.
Hauth earned Master of Arts in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington in 1973.
(A poetic narrative which explains the process of symbiosi...)
A poetic narrative which explains the process of symbiosis and pollination through a description of the relationship between the yucca plant and the yucca moth.
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Life-Yucca-Story-Flower/dp/157140015X/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Dinner is Served. What in nature could be more poetic tha...)
Dinner is Served. What in nature could be more poetic than the hunt for food and the struggle for survival? In twenty-nine poems readers will squirm at the realities of how the animal world catches food, eats it, and becomes dinner in turn.
https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Dinner-Squirmy-Library-Selection/dp/1570914729/?tag=2022091-20
2011
Katherine Hauth was born on November 13, 1940 in Flint, Michigan, United States.
Katherine Hauth received a Bachelor of Arts in English at Marquette University in 1962. After that, she earned a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington in 1973.
Children’s author and poet Katherine B. Hauth grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After leaving a career as a personnel analyst in Seattle, she found herself drawn to the natural rhythms she encountered in the Southwest. The longer she lived away from city noises and distractions, the more she found nature to be essentially poetic.
Katherine responded to its patterns, rhythms, sensuous qualities, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. As she became more in tune with the land, it seemed natural to write its stories in the language of poetry. And so — aided by reading poetry and taking poetry classes and workshops — she became a poet.
A 2010 writer for Kirkus Reviews described "What’s for Dinner? Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World" (2011) as an “enriching overview of the natural world spiced with a Dorothy Parkeresque sense of the macabre that children will absolutely relish,” noting that some “poems look at the wildly diverse ways in which organisms lure or capture their prey; still others break down sophisticated concepts like symbiosis and parasitism in brilliantly accessible terms.”
Hauth is also the author of "Night Life of the Yucca: The Story of a Flower and a Moth" (1996). She lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, just an hour from some great hikes in the desert and mountains. Many of her poems are inspired by her observations of animals while hiking - or just walking around her neighborhood.
(A poetic narrative which explains the process of symbiosi...)
1996(Dinner is Served. What in nature could be more poetic tha...)
2011
Quotations:
“Some of my fondest childhood memories are of the vacant lots where things grew wild and had their own set of rules. I climbed trees, collected butterflies, and took a taxidermy course by mail before fitting myself into the predictable roles of teacher and wife."
“The stories that don’t leave me are the ones I write to share with children. I also enjoy visiting schools and talking and teaching about writing and nature with young people.”
Katherine Hauth is married to George Hauth.