Cate Marvin is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Marlboro College (BA, 1993), University of Houston (MFA, 1997), University of Iowa (MFA, 1999) and University of Cincinnati (Ph.D., 2003) ^[1] She has taught at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, ^[2] Columbia University and in the English Department of Colby College. ^{[3] [4]}

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, ^[5] 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
• 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University.
• 2007 NYFA Fellow
• 2007 Whiting Award
• 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

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

• World’s Tallest Disaster, Sarabande Books 2001
• Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Sarabande Books 2007
• Oracle, WW Norton 2015
• Event Horizon, Copper Canyon Press 2022

Editor

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

References

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Poetry Foundation page.

Links to works

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "The Pet", Slate, Jan. 14, 2003
• Monsterful. Spring 2007. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)
• Robotripping. Spring 2006. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed. Spring 2000. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)
• World's Tallest Disaster. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN  978-1-889330-61-7.