Kate Colby (born 1974, Boston) is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from
Wesleyan University
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Wesleyan University Writing
and an MFA from California College of the Arts
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. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco
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, where she worked for several years as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on the board of The LAB art space, and later as a grant writer and copyeditor. In 2008, she moved to Providence, Rhode Island
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, where she currently works as an editor and serves on the board of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts.
Her poems and essays have appeared in ''A Public Space, Aufgabe'', ''The Awl'', ''Bennington Review, Boston Review'', ''Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly'', ''New American Writing'', ''The Nation'', ''The Rumpus, Verse'' and ''The Volta'', among other journals and periodicals, and has been featured at the RISD, deCordova and Isabella Stewart Gardner museums.
Awards
* 2007 Norma Farber First Book Award, ''Fruitlands.'' Selected by Rosmarie Waldrop.
* 2011 Finalist for ''Foreword Reviews Poetry Book of the Year Award for ''Beauport''
* 2013 Fellowship in Poetry, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts
* 2017-2018 Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship, Harvard University
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Works
Poetry collections
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* ''Blue Hole.'' Furniture Press. 2015. .
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*''The Arrangements.'' Four Way. 2018. .
Essays
* ''Dream of the Trenches''. Noemi Press. 2019. .
Chapbooks
* ''Rock of Ages''. Anadama Press. 2005.
* ''A Banner Year.'' Belladonna. 2006.
* ''Engine Light''. PressBoardPress. 2015.
* ''Sun Damage''. Essay Press. 2017
References
External links
"An Interview with Kate Colby", ''Bookslut''
Kate Colby PennSound
Kate Colby Poetry Foundation
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Living people
American women poets
California College of the Arts alumni
Wesleyan University alumni
Poets from Massachusetts
1974 births
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers