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As a first-year student Kate received the Nature in Words Fellowship at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarcreekinstitute.org\/\">Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Environmental Education<\/a> (Hastings, Mich.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an extraordinarily competitive fellowship,&#8221; says Kate\u2019s mentor and Kalamazoo College\u2019s Writer-in-Residence Diane Seuss. &#8220;And Kate made the most of the opportunity with her project, \u2019Voicing the Natural.\u2019&#8221; According to Kate, the project sought to speak through the plants and animals she encountered during summer at the institute. &#8220;I planned to create the project using persona poems, inspired by Conrad Hilberry\u2019s collection of poems, <em>The Fingernail of Luck<\/em>,&#8221; says Kate. &#8220;As I wrote, the project shaped itself into sections, and finally into a collection of poems that I named <em>But That Was In A Different Life<\/em>.&#8221; The poems are threaded together by Wild Woman, a voice of nature within a female human. 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