Kate Colby’s books of poetry include I Mean and Reverse Engineer. Paradoxx is forthcoming from Essay Press. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut, and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. Her poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Harper’s, Lana Turner, LitHub and The Nation.
Colby was a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts, where she now serves on the advisory board. She grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she teaches at Brown and UPenn, and performs with the ad hoc poets’ theater group, Spatulate Church Emergency Shift.