Cate Marvin is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

Life

She graduated from

Marlboro College Marlboro College was a private college in Marlboro, Vermont. Founded in 1946, it remained intentionally small, operating as a self-governing community with students following self-designed degree plans culminating in a thesis. In 1998 the coll ...

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 coll ...

, and

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

with a Ph.D. She has taught at the

College of Staten Island The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a public university in Staten Island, New York. It is one of the 11 four-year senior colleges within the City University of New York system. Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studie ...

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven pr ...

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

. She teaches in the English Department of

Colby College Colby College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the ...

. Her work has appeared in ''Ploughshares'', ''Fence'', ''The New England Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', ''Slate'', ''Verse'', ''Boston Review'', ''Ninth Letter'', and ''TriQuarterly''.

Awards

* 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, for ''World’s Tallest Disaster'' by

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most o ...

* 2002

Kate Tufts Discovery Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...

from

Claremont Graduate University The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna C ...

. * 2007 NYFA Fellow * 2007 Whiting Award * 2015

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Publications

Poems

* "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", ''Fishouse'' * "Azalea", ''Fishouse'' * "Monsterful", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2007 * "Robotripping", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2006 * "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2000 * "The Pet", ''Slate'', January 14, 2003

Full-length poetry collections

* ''Chicanery: A Collection of Original Poems'', University of Cincinnati 2003 (Unpublished dissertation) * ''World’s Tallest Disaster'', Sarabande Books 2001 * ''Fragment of the Head of a Queen'', Sarabande Books 2007 * ''Oracle'', WW Norton 2015

Editor

* with Michael Dumanis, ''Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century'', Sarabande Books 2006

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting FoundationPoetry Foundation page.

Links to works

"I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", ''Fishouse''

"Azalea", ''Fishouse''

"The Pet", ''Slate'', Jan. 14, 2003
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