Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the author of three books: No Sudden Bright Way, winner of The 2025 Orison Chapbook Prize (Orison Books, forthcoming); 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), a 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards finalist in Poetry and Criticism. Kathryn earned degrees in English and 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 poetry has appeared in Sugar House Review, Image, Colorado Review, Four Way Review, Rock & Sling, the anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild (Torrey House Press, 2021), and others. She works as a landscape designer and serves as the poetry editor for Wayfare.