Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the author of The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother (Faith Matters Publishing, 2022), winner of the 2022 BIBA Literary Award in Non-Fiction: Religion, and The Tree at the Center (BCC Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in Image Journal, Colorado Review, The Inflectionist Review, Ethel, Psaltery & Lyre, Exponent II, Segullah, Dialogue, Rock & Sling, Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild (Torrey House Press, 2021), and others.

Kathryn earned a BA in English and a BS in environmental studies before earning her MLA in landscape architecture and environmental planning. Her thesis focused on the role of the transcendent in landscapes and greatly informs her creative pursuits. 

Her collection The Tree at the Center was a 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards finalist in Poetry and Criticism, and in 2020, her article “The Mother Tree: Understanding the Spiritual Root of Our Ecological Crisis” was nominated for the Geisner & Mogg Best Theological Article Award by the John Whitmer Historical Association. 

Kathryn works as a freelance writer, landscape designer, and land planner. She currently serves on the poetry board of Segullah, and as the poetry editor for Wayfare Magazine.