Kate Colby

Kate Colby
Colby in 2016
Born	1974 (age 49–50) Boston, Massachusetts
Education	Wesleyan University (B.A.) California College of the Arts (M.F.A.)
Occupations	Poet essayist

Kate Colby (born 1974, Boston) is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked for several years as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on the board of The LAB art space, and later as a grant writer and copyeditor. In 2008, she moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she currently works as an editor and serves on the board of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts.

Her poems and essays have appeared in A Public Space, Aufgabe, The Awl, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, The Nation, The Rumpus, Verse and The Volta, among other journals and periodicals, and has been featured at the RISD, deCordova and Isabella Stewart Gardner museums.

Awards

• 2007 Norma Farber First Book Award, Fruitlands. Selected by Rosmarie Waldrop.
• 2011 Finalist for Foreword Reviews' Poetry Book of the Year Award for Beauport
• 2013 Fellowship in Poetry, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts
• 2017-2018 Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship, Harvard University

Works

Poetry collections

• Fruitlands. Litmus Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9723331-9-1.
• Unbecoming Behavior. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2008. ISBN 978-1-933254-40-1.
• Beauport. Litmus Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-933959-11-5.
• The Return of the Native. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2011. ISBN 978-1-933254-77-7.
• Blue Hole. Furniture Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-940092-11-9.
• I Mean. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2015. ISBN 978-1-937027-45-2.
• The Arrangements. Four Way. 2018. ISBN 978-1-945588-21-1.

Essays

• Dream of the Trenches. Noemi Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-934819-80-7.

Chapbooks

• Rock of Ages. Anadama Press. 2005.
• A Banner Year. Belladonna. 2006.
• Engine Light. PressBoardPress. 2015.
• Sun Damage. Essay Press. 2017

External links

• "An Interview with Kate Colby", Bookslut
• Kate Colby PennSound
• Kate Colby Poetry Foundation