Catherine Barnett

Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett
Education	Princeton University (B.A.); Warren Wilson College (M.F.A.);
Occupations	Poet; educator;

Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (Graywolf Press, 2024); Human Hours (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the Believer Book Award; The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012), winner of the James Laughlin Award; and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She has published widely in journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation, Pleiades, Poetry, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Washington Post. Her poetry was featured in The Best American Poetry 2016, edited by Edward Hirsch.^[1] Barnett teaches in the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at New York University. She has also taught in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Princeton University, The New School, and Barnard College. She also works as an independent editor. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.,

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"The Best American Poetry 2016 Table of Contents". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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"Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. 2006. Archived from the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-10.

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Catherine Barnett
Education	Princeton University (B.A.) Warren Wilson College (M.F.A.)
Occupations	Poet educator