Catherine Barnett

Catherine Barnett’s first book of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in 2004 by Alice James Books. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she received the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2004 Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Lyric, The Massachusetts Review, and The Washington Post. She lives in New York City and teaches at NYU.