Catherine Imbriglio 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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Life

Catherine was born and lives in

Rhode Island Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Is ...

. She graduated from Regis College,

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, M.A. (creative writing), and Ph.D. 1995. She teaches at

. Her work has appeared in ''American Letters & Commentary'', ''Caliban'', ''Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Contemporary Literature'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''Epoch'', ''First Intensity'', ''Indiana Review'', ''New American Writing'', ''No: A Journal of the Arts'', ''Pleiades'', ''WebConjunctions''.

Awards

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of ...

''Parts of the Mass'' * Untermeyer fellowship in poetry * merit award in poetry from the RI State Council on the Arts * Brown University UCS award for excellence in teaching.

Work

Poetry

Anthologies

* ''The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries'', ed. Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

References

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