Katherine Indermaur is a poet, writer, editor, and communicator. Her 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.
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 or is forthcoming in AGNI, Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, Grist, New Delta Review, the Normal School, Seneca Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize as well as Best of the Net.
Currently, Katherine is an editor for Sugar House Review and the poetry editor for Alpinist magazine.
She earned her BA from the University of North Carolina at 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.
She now works as a freelance communicator and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her family.
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