Catherine Barnett

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Catherine Barnett
Born1960 (age 6364)
San Francisco, California
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  • Poet
  • educator

Catherine Barnett (born 1960 in San Francisco) [1] is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Human Hours (Graywolf Press, 2018); 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 a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 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 , Pleiades , Poetry , the Virginia Quarterly Review , and The Washington Post . Her poetry was featured in The Best American Poetry 2016, edited by Edward Hirsch. [2] Barnett teaches in the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at New York University and is a distinguished lecturer at Hunter College. She has also taught at Princeton University, The New School, and Barnard College, where she is a Visiting Poet. 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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