Katharine Whitcomb
(US)
Katharine Whitcomb was born in Appleton, Wisconsin (USA) and earned her B.A. from Macalester College in English. In 1995 she received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1996-1998.
She is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Habitats, published in 2024 by Poetry Northwest Editions in the Possession Sound Series, The Daughter’s Almanac, which was the winner of the Backwaters Prize and published by The University of Nebraska Press/The Backwaters Press; Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which was chosen as the winner of the Bluestem Award and published by Bluestem Press; and two poetry chapbooks. She is the co-author, with the artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of The Art Courage Program, a parody self-help book and art piece, published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2014. Her writing is widely published in literary journals and anthologies.
In addition to the Stegner Fellowship, her awards include a Loft-McKnight Award, a Writing Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Halls Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She received an AWP Fellowship in Poetry to the Prague Summer Seminars at Charles University in Czechia.
She is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Central Washington University and makes her home in northern Vermont.
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