Katie Farris
American writer and academic
Katie Farris (born August 10, 1983) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor. Her memoir in poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (2023), was shortlisted for T. S. Eliot Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Life and career
Katie Farris has published poetry and prose in publications such as The New York Times, The Nation, The Yale Review,McSweeney's, Granta, The Believer, Poetry, Poetry London, The American Poetry Review, Paris Review and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Farris's memoir in poems Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (Alice James Books) which was shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize has been called "wondrous" (Publishers Weekly, "brilliant" (Jericho Brown), "saturated with love and intellectual ardor" (World Literature Today), "genius" (Kaveh Akbar), and "perfect" (Harvard Review).
Farris is also the author of boysgirls (Tupelo Press) which was called "truly innovative" (Prague Post ), "a tour de force" (Robert Coover), and "a book with gigantic scope. At some points it reads like the book of Genesis; at others, like a dream-turned-nightmare. From the opening lines the author grabs you by the throat." (Louisville Courier-Journal).
She is also the author of several chapbooks, including A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving which was published as the winner of The Beloit Poetry Journal's national competition and was called "luminous" (The Los Angeles Review of Books) and "extraordinary" (Paris Review). Berlin-based press Five Hundred Places published her Thirteen Intimacies.
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