Kali Lightfoot lives in Salem, MA. She worked as a teacher, wilderness ranger in Washington state, executive at Road Scholar, and retired from her position as founding Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes. Kali earned an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2015. Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies; been nominated for Pushcart prizes by Lavender Review, and Poetry South, and for Best of the Net by *82 Revies. Her first full-length collection of poems, Pelted by Flowers, was published by CavanKerry Press in April, 2021. The book was chosen as a Must Read book for 2022 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and was selected as a Best-Dressed by Sundress Publications. Kali’s reviews of poetry books have been published by Broadsided Press, The Hopper, and Solstice. Kali's recent poetry collection is Big Band Night at the Good Life Bar, Moon Pie Press.
