Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin was born in Washington, D.C. She holds MFA degrees from the Universities of Houston and Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Her first collection, World’s Tallest Disaster (Sarabande Books, 2001) won the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the 2002 Kate Tufts Discover Award. She has since published two other collections, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande Books 2007), which won a Whiting Award, and Oracle (W. W. Norton & Co., 2015). Along with poet Michael Dumanis, she co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University and is an associate professor in English at the College of Staten Island.