Katie Ford
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
’s Divinity School, and of University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
’s creative writing program. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, Seneca Review, Poets & Writers, American Literary Review and Pleiades. She is poetry editor of the New Orleans Review, and has taught at Loyola University, Reed College
Reed College
Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...
, and now at Franklin and Marshall College.
She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons
Josh Emmons
Josh Emmons is an American novelist who currently lives in Philadelphia. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop , he published his first book, The Loss of Leon Meed, in 2005...
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Poetry
- Deposition (2002), ISBN 9781555973742
- Storm (Marick Press, 2007), ISBN 9780971267688
- Colosseum (Graywolf Press, 2008), ISBN 9781555975012
Awards
- Lannan Foundation Fellowship
- grants from the Academy of American Poets and the PEN American Center
Reviews
It’s difficult to find poetry as rich in lyrical power as that of Katie Ford—and this time around she has chosen a subject that readily lends itself to her vividly detailed, forcefully compelling voice. Colosseum (Graywolf Press) reflects on ancient ruins, war-ravaged lands, and such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina and its catastrophic impact.