Dr. Kathleen Henderson Staudt works as a teacher, poet and spiritual director at a number of institutions in the Washington, DC area. At Wesley Theological Seminary, her courses focus on connections between literary art, the theology of grace and Scripture, and students in her classes are encouraged to respond creatively to the literary works that they read. She also teaches at Virginia Theological Seminary and at the University of Maryland. She has offered retreats , workshops, and poetry readings at the Washington National Cathedral and at area churches, including the annual Evelyn Underhill Day of Quiet offered at the Cathedral each year in June. Her poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in Christianity and Literature, Cross Currents, Sewanee Theological Review, Living Prayer, The Anglican Theological Review and the David Jones Journal among others. She is the author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics, published in 1994 by University of Michigan Press, and Annunciations: Poems out of Scripture published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2003.
