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KE Ogden is a poet, writer and educator. She holds an AA from Skyline College, a BA in Therapy Through Creative Self-Expression from San Francisco State University, an MA in English with a focus on composition and Narrative Therapy, an MFA in American Literature and Multi-Genre Creative Writing  from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the PhD in Theater from Louisiana State University. She has completed certified workshops in Narrative Therapy practices through the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, the Dulwich Centre, and the Narrative Therapy Initiative. Her dissertation, An Aloha State of Mind: Performing Hawaiian Cultural Identities explores Hawaiian Drama and the formation of identities and is housed in the Kumu Kahua theater archives. Her poems, essays, and prose have won awards and have been published in a variety of venues, including KRO: Kenyon Review Online, Louisiana Literature,  anderbo,  brevity, Phoebe, MilkJournal, Slipstream, 
Claudius Speaks, Arsenic Lobster, and Fourth River: Tributaries. 

Her identity and culture have been informed by growing up working class in Honolulu, Hawai'i, attending high school in Northern California during the AIDS crisis, and spending almost every summer of her life in rural, southeastern Louisiana.

She is a former Peter Taylor Poetry Fellow for the Kenyon Review, a two-time judge for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize,  and a Poet-Laureate of Gambier, Ohio. She is a two-time winner of the Cal State LA Henri Coulette Memorial Award for Poetry sponsored by The Academy of American Poets and she was named a Poetry Ambassador to The Normal University in Changsha, China by the Center for Contemporary Poetry & Poetics at CSULA. 

She was a featured poet for the Poets for Living Waters project after the Gulf Oil Spill, and her digital quilt piece "Caged" was featured with other paper/book artists in response to the first election of Donald Trump at the Unstitched States project, curated by author Gretchen Henderson.

Dr. Ogden mentors young writers each summer as a faculty member in the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop and is a tenured professor and chairs the Creative Writign program in the English & Language Studies Division at Pasadena City College where she organizes the Public Humanities Speakers Series,  serves as a Faculty Editor for PCC's Inscape Literary Magazine, and organizes the Visiting Writers series with her colleagues.