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Catherine Anderson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Kansas City, MO
Missouri US
Email: 
ceanderson02@gmail.com
Bio: 

Born in Detroit, the daughter of a school teacher and a newspaper reporter, Catherine Anderson has published four full-length collections of poetry as well as numerous essays. Her latest work is a memoir (2022), centered on life with her brother who had intellectual disabilities, My Brother Speaks in Dreams: Of Family, Beauty & Belonging. Her work has been noted in The Georgia Review, The Boston Globe, and The Kansas City Star. For years she lived in Boston where she edited a community newspaper centered on the lives of Asian Americans and worked as a staff writer for area nonprofits. She now lives in Kansas City where she works with new interpreters from the city’s immigrant communities.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Marianne Boruch Linda Gregerson Sharon Olds Larry Levis W.S. Merwin Trish Reeves Ada Limon Donald Justice Robert Hayden Elizabeth Bishop Philip Levine Tracy K. Smith Susan Stewart Natasha Trethewey Adonis Pablo Neruda Bertolt Brecht Aracelis Girmay Anne Truitt Li Po Tu Fu Wang Wei Tracy Brimhall Rebecca Hart Olander Maryfrances Wagner Deborah Digges B.H. Fairchild
Born in: 
Detroit, MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Detroit, MI
Michigan
Prizes won: 

Crab Orchard Review: 2010 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize

The I-70 Review: 2013 Gary Gildner Poetry Award

Southern Humanities Review: 2018 Finalist for the Jake Adam York Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

What I'm reading now: 
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
An Ordinary Life by B.H. Fairchild
The Carrying by Ada Limon
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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