Congratulations to Pacifica faculty member Kathee Miller, MA, LMFT, of the MA Counseling Program, on the recent publication of her poetry in the anthology A Feast for Santa Barbara: Poets Celebrating Food & Drink (2026, Gunpowder Press).
The anthology features “literary morsels from more than 100 Santa Barbara–area poets, celebrating the diverse farming, dining, cooking, and drinking in our community.” It is edited by George Yatchisin, Santa Barbara’s 11th Poet Laureate, and brings together a vibrant collection of poetry.
Kathee was also a contributing author to Women in a Golden State, edited by Diana Raab and Chryss Yost. Featuring the work of more than 175 California authors, the collection honors 2025 as California’s 175th anniversary of statehood and includes poems and micro-essays from writers throughout the state. Contributors range from award-winning Poets Laureate to emerging writers exploring new forms of expression.
Women in a Golden State examines “the mythology and reality of being a woman of a certain age,” particularly within youth-obsessed California, and invites readers to reconsider aging not as an ending, but as an ongoing journey filled with beauty, strength, and possibility.
Future readings of A Feast for Santa Barbara: Poets Celebrating Food & Drink will be announced. For more information about both books, please visit Gunpowder Press.
Congratulations to Kathee on these wonderful literary accomplishments!
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Kathee serves as Core Professor in the MA Counseling Psychology Program and has been with Pacifica since its inception. She teaches courses such as Process of Psychotherapy I, II, III, Archetypal/Imaginal Psychology, Authentic Movement: Active Imagination, and is the program’s faculty liaison. Kathee has been in private practice since 1980, specializing in Jungian, somatic and creative arts psychotherapy. Also a poet and photographer, wanderer in nature, she brings passion and compassion to the art of witnessing as a spiritual practice and source of advocacy.
