Kathy Fagan

KATHY FAGAN earned her MFA from Columbia University and her PhD from the University of Utah. She is the author of four books of poems, The Raft, a National Poetry Series Award Winner (Dutton, 1985), MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry (Univ of North Texas Press), The Charm (Zoo Press, 2002), and LIP (2009). Her work has been anthologized in Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets (Doubleday, 1989), Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place (HeyDay, 1999), Extraordinary Tide: Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Columbia, 2001), American Diaspora (Iowa, 2001), The Breath of Parted Lips: 25 Years of Poems from the Frost Place (CavanKerry, 2001), and Poet’s Choice, edited by Edward Hirsch (Harcourt, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, FIELD, The Kenyon Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Shenandoah, and The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. She is co-editor of The Journal, for which she and Michelle Herman were awarded the 2004 Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence.