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Catherine Marenghi [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Wareham, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
clmarenghi@gmail.com
Bio: 

Catherine Marenghi is a novelist, memoirist, and award-winning poet. Her books include Unfurled: Love Poems (2023), the historical novel Our Good Name (2022), Glad Farm: A Memoir (2016), and Breaking Bread: Poems (2020). Catherine writes with a profound sense of place and a fascination with the power of house, home, immigrant experience, and family bonds.  Her poetry has won numerous awards, including two Academy of American Poets prizes, and her work has appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and internationally. The granddaughter of northern Italian immigrants, Catherine was born and raised in Milford, Massachusetts, an industrial town where she has deep roots. She is an active member of the vibrant literary community of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she has served on the board of the San Miguel Poetry Cafe and, with poet Judyth Hill, co-founded the Poetry Mesa, an international community serving poets and poetry. She holds an M.A., B.A. Summa Cum Laude in English from Tufts University, where she studied with Denise Levertov and X.J. Kennedy. She divides her time between Cape Cod (Massachusetts) and Mexico.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Louise Glück, Mark Doty, Philip Larkin, Pablo Neruda, Jericho Brown, Elena Ferrante, Cesare Pavese, Alba de Céspedes, Annie Ernaux…
Twitter/X: 
Marenghi
Born in: 
Framingham, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Milford, MA
Massachusetts
Website: 
https://www.marenghi.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Twice first-place winner of Academy of American Poets University Prize

First-place winner in two separate poetry contests sponsored by Crossroads Magazine: one judged by Richard Blanco, the other by Jennifer Clement

Winner of first prize in poetry at the Marblehead Festival of the Arts, Marblehead, MA.

Semi-finalist for the Wilder Prize 2020 from Two Sylvias Press.

Yeats Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, W.B. Yeats soiety of New York.

First runner-up in the Robert Frost Poetry Contest 2021 by Wingless Dreamer magazine.

Poetry chapbook selected by The Poets Corner & Maine Media 2022 Chapbook Contest as one of 10 finalists. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye was a juror.

 

 

 

Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Any
Immigration
Women

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/catherine_marenghi [2] https://www.marenghi.com