Kate Colby’s books of poetry and prose include I Mean and Paradoxx. 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, where she was a fellow in 2018. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Harper’s, Lana Turner, Literary Hub, The Nation and Poetry Magazine.
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 UPenn, performs ad hoc poets’ theater with Spatulate Church Emergency Shift, and is a member of Red Nun Collective.