Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.[1] She has taught at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York[2] and Columbia University.[3] She teaches in the English Department of Colby College.[4]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,[5] Fence, The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and TriQuarterly.

Awards

• 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, for World’s Tallest Disaster by Robert Pinsky
• 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University.
• 2007 NYFA Fellow
• 2007 Whiting Award
• 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship

Poems

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "Monsterful", Ploughshares, Spring 2007
• "Robotripping", Ploughshares, Spring 2006
• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Ploughshares, Spring 2000
• "The Pet", Slate, January 14, 2003

Full-length poetry collections

• Chicanery: A Collection of Original Poems, University of Cincinnati 2003 (Unpublished dissertation)
• World’s Tallest Disaster, Sarabande Books 2001
• Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Sarabande Books 2007
• Oracle, WW Norton 2015

Editor

• with Michael Dumanis, Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century, Sarabande Books 2006

References

1. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4909
2. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1948
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-07-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. https://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/cate.marvin/
5. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1948

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• Poetry Foundation page.

Links to works

• "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", Fishouse
• "Azalea", Fishouse
• "The Pet", Slate, Jan. 14, 2003
• Monsterful. Ploughshares. Spring 2007.
• Robotripping. Ploughshares. Spring 2006.
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed. Ploughshares. Spring 2000.
• World’s Tallest Disaster. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN 978-1-889330-61-7.