Kate Colby is author of nine books of poetry and essays. 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 work has been featured at the Beauport Sleeper-McCann, deCordova, Isabella Stewart Gardner and RISD museums, and her poems and essays have recently appeared in A Public Space, Bennington Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Jubilat, Lana Turner and The Nation. She was a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts, where she now serves on the advisory board. Colby grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she teaches at Brown and UPenn, and performs with the Spatulate Church Emergency Shift.