Katharine Whitcomb

Katharine Whitcomb is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Habitats, published by Poetry NW Editions, Saints of South Dakota& Other Poems, and The Daughter’s Almanac, which won the Backwaters Prize, chosen by Patricia Smith. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, and elsewhere. Her poems and prose have been published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Bennington Review, Narrative, and many other journals and anthologies. She makes her home in northern Vermont.