About

Contact: britt.kaufmann [at] gmail.com

Britt has recently moved to Northern Indiana (where she grew up) after spending the last 22 years living the mountains of Western North Carolina. At various points in her life she has been a high school math tutor, a sub, a teaching artist, a stay-at-home mom, an English teacher, a volleyball coach, a graphic designer, a non-profit board member, and a taxi-driver between kids' sports practices. She enjoys working in her flower beds and reading. Unable to pick just a few hobbies, she also enjoys graphic design, photography, and quilting/sewing.

Her poetry and prose have appeared in various publications: Scientific American, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Moss Puppy & Hyperbolic Review, Anabaptist World, Soft Star, Cosmic Daffodil, Kakalak Poetry Anthology (2007, 2008 & 2022), Main Street Rag, WNC Magazine, Now & Then, WNC Woman, The Mennonite and The Pedestal Magazine among others.

As founding planner, the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival will always be near and dear to her heart. She also hosted Eve's Night Out, a monthly open-mic poetry reading in Burnsville for ten years pre-pandemic.

Her first full-length play, An Uncivil Union: The Battle of Burnsville (a romantic comedy set in the middle of actual events that occurred in Burnsville during the Civil War) was produced as a part of the Parkway Playhouse's 2011 season. Her second play Between the Tackles, written with Stephanie Stark-Poling premiered in September of 2012 on the same stage. She was awarded a 2012 Regional Artist's Project Grant to aid the completion and production of this play. Her chapbook of poems Belonging was published by Finishing Line Press.

Midlife Calculus is her first full-length poetry collection (Press 53)

Related Experiences:

Guest speaker at Appalachian State course in Appalachian Literature; Western Carolina University on playwriting for Pamela Duncan's creative writing class; Duke University on Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours for a film class on adaptations

2012 Artist in Residence with Toe River Arts Council -- week-long in-school residencies teaching poetry

2012 recipient of the Regional Artists Project Grant from area Arts Councils for the completion of Between the Tackles

2025 recipient of the Regional Artists Support Grant from Toe River Arts etc. for Midlife Calculus

2011 & 2025 interviewed by Jeff Davis for WordPlay Radio program

2011 read as a part of Asheville's poetry festival Wordfest!

2025 invited author to the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

Member of the steering committee of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

2006 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer

2007 - Author Recruitment, Publicity Overseer & Webmaster

2008 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

wrote a commissioned poem for the festival and the Slow Book Salon

2009 - Publicity Chair & Web Designer (program committee)

2010 - Publicity Chair, Web Designer & Program Committee

2011 - Publicity Chair, Web Designer, Author Liaison & Program Committee (and presenting author)

2012 - Graphic Designer

2013 - Program Committee Chair & Graphic Designer

2014 - Graphic Designer

2015 -2016 Graphic Designer & on the Publicity Committee

2017 - 2019 Graphic Designer

Host of Eve's Night Out - a local poetry reading - 2005-2019

Co-founded the Lost County Writers critique group in 2005-2009

Formal Jobs:

Math Tutor & Sub @ Mountain Heritage High School (2019-2025)

Graphic Designer at Parkway Playhouse (2013-2019)

Sub with a Suitcase for Yancey & Mitchell County Schools - an innovative program created by

Penland School of Crafts and Mimi Hermon to train studio artists to be subs and bring more art

into the classrooms through already established channels. (2012-2018)

High School English Teacher - South Bend Public Schools, Indianapolis Public Schools, Eau Claire Public Schools - (1997-2002) & Participant in National Urban Alliance teacher training for two years. NUA

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