Katherine McCord

I have two books of poetry--Island and Living Room (prose poems)--a lyric essay memoir, My CIA; a poetry chapbook, Muse Annie; and a literary memoir, Run Scream Unbury Save.  My CIA was named a top ten book of 2012 by the Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy and Humanities and added to their ongoing list of Great Nonfiction reads.  It won a Baker Artist Award; was showcased on Maryland Public Television’s, An Artworks Special; and was featured through an art installation co-produced by Maryland Institute College of Art’s MFA in Curatorial Practice in early December 2013 in Baltimore.  I have published widely in literary journals and magazines, such as five poems in American Poetry Review.  I have an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Creative Writing/Poetry.  In 2011 and 2014, I won Maryland Individual Artist Awards (state grants in creative writing in poetry).  I have been awarded finalist/semi-finalist status in the Emerging Writer Fellowship Competition, The Writer's Center, Maryland; the Joaquin Miller Cabin Reading Series, Washington, DC; The "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest; the Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Competition; The Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition; The Maryland Poetry Review Poetry Contest; and the fellowship competition, Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania and Kenya, 2013.  Finally, I won the Gabehart Prize in (Creative) Nonfiction for an excerpt from my manuscript, Run Scream Unbury Save; was named one of three finalists for the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award; was awarded a Hoffer Legacy (Creative) Nonfiction Award for My CIA; was named a finalist for my manuscript of prose poetry, Muse Annie, for C&R’s Summer Chapbook Contest; was named a finalist for Muse Annie for NDR’s Poetry Chapbook Competition; was named a finalist for the Faulkner Wisdom Competition for an excerpt from my book-length lyric essay in progress at the time, Run Scream Unbury Save; was named a finalist for an excerpt from RSUS for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize; won the Autumn House Press Open Book Award in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Michael Martone, for my literary memoir manuscript, Run Scream Unbury Save; was published on Essay Daily for a piece I did on “menus” for my book and others; and, finally, Muse Annie, a chapbook of poems, is out from Kattywompus Press.