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Katherine Indermaur’s first full-length book, I|I (Seneca Review Books, 2022), was selected as the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize by Kazim Ali and as the winner of the 2023 Colorado Book Award. It is available wherever books are sold!
Katherine is also the author of two chapbooks, Facing the Mirror: An Essay (Coast|noCoast, 2020) and Pulse (Ghost City Press, 2018). Tommy Pico selected her poem “Girl Descends Asunder” as the winner of the Black Warrior Review 2019 Poetry Contest, and she was named a runner-up in the 92Y’s 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest by judges Jericho Brown, Paisley Rekdal, and Wendy Xu. Her writing has appeared in Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, New Delta Review, the Normal School, Seneca Review, and elsewhere.
Currently, Katherine is an editor for Sugar House Review. She earned her BA from UNC-Chapel Hill in English with honors, and her MFA from Colorado State University in creative writing, where she was the managing editor for Colorado Review. She was also awarded the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize while at CSU by judge Laynie Browne.
Previously, Katherine taught creative writing and worked as an editor for Alpinist magazine, a communicator, and a nonprofit fundraiser. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband, daughter, and dog, where she can often be found rock climbing, hiking, camping, practicing yoga, or setting off her kitchen’s smoke alarm.
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