Katie Ford

 

New book forthcoming in August, 2018

 

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    • BIO

      b. 1975

      Katie Ford

      Photo by Helge Brekke

       

      Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and Blood Lyrics, all published by Graywolf Press. Blood Lyrics was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize.

       

      Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review and led to a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize.

       

      She completed graduate work in theology and poetry at Harvard University, and, following that, received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and the Norton Introduction to Literature. 

       

      She served as a judge for the National Book Award in Poetry (2016) and is at work on her fourth book, due out from Graywolf in August of 2018.

       

      She teaches at the University of California, Riverside, where she also directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.

    • Books

      If You Have To Go

      Graywolf Press, forthcoming in August, 2018.

      Blood Lyrics

      Graywolf Press, 2014

      “Katie Ford’s is a finely-wrought lyrical beauty, a poetry of detail and care, but she has set it within an epic arc.”—Poetry

       

      Cover art by Scott Wright.

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Colosseum

      Graywolf Press, 2008

       

      Discussed by David Rigsbee in The Cortland Review

       

      “Ford’s impressive second book is an extended meditation on destruction and ruins in the wake of Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans. . . . These are poems worthy of their subject—which is saying a lot” (The Virginia Quarterly Review).

       

      “One of the most powerful books of poetry this year” (Time Out New York).

      Deposition

      Graywolf Press, 2002

       

      Poet Katie Ford's debut collection, whose poems "possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night"—The New York Times Book Review

       

       

    • Poems

      • "November Philosophers," "Still-Life," The New Yorker
      • "Earth," The Paris Review
      • "The Soul," Poetry Foundation
      • "Children's Hospital," Poetry Foundation
      • "The Fire," Academy of American Poets
      • "Song After Sadness,"  Academy of American Poets
      • "Throats of Guantanamo,"  Academy of American Poets
      • "Koi," Academy of American Poets
      • "Colosseum",  Academy of American Poets
      • Selected Poems, Virginia Quarterly Review

    • Anthologies

      The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology

      by Ann Keniston (Author, Editor), Jeffrey Gray

      This anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that deal with the public events, government policies, ecological and political threats, economic uncertainties, and large-scale violence that have largely defined the century to date.

      Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion

      by Inc. Academy of American Poets

      For 80 years, the Academy of American Poets has been one of the most influential and respected champions of contemporary American poetry. Through their successful Poem-a-Day online program, the Academy continues to celebrate verse by delivering poems to thousands of e-mail subscribers each morning. Now for the first time, the poems selected by the Academy for this program are available in book form so that they can be collected and savored.

      Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century

      by Michael Dumanis (Editor), Cate Marvin (Editor)

      This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering together generous selections from the work of 85 younger American poets.

      The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter and Longer 12th Editions)

      by Kelly J. Mays (Editor)

      The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter 12th Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The Norton Introduction to Literature continues to meet the needs of today’s students and instructors, offering trusted guidance for analyzing texts, writing thoughtfully, and appreciating literature.

       

      Includes "Still Life" by Katie Ford, first published in The New Yorker and in Blood Lyrics.

      Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections

      by Arielle Greenberg (Editor), Rachel Zucker (Editor)

      Imagine being a young poet, nurturing your craft without the benefit of established mentors. Imagine having never been in a class taught by a woman poet or not having a bookshelf filled with books written by living women poets. Luckily, young women poets today don’t have to. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker’s Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections collects both personal essays and representative poems by women born after 1960 whose careers were influenced—directly or indirectly—by the women who preceded them.

    • Essays

      Writing About the City: New Orleans, Destruction,
      and the Duty of the Poet

       

      Visibility Is Poor: Elizabeth Bishop’s Obsessive Imagery and Mystical Unsaying

    • Reviews

      Poetry International

      Zyzzyva

      The Cortland Review

    • Interviews

      Front Porch Journal

      SF Station

      Elise Paschen interviews Katie Ford

      Devil's Lake, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • Artistic COllaborations

      Vela Noche, 3/3: VOLUME 1, SET 2

      David Ludwig Music, Our Long War

      Carnegie Hall, Memesis Ensemble

    • Teaching

      Katie Ford teaches at the University of California, Riverside

      and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts

      UC Riverside

      MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts

      The Department of Creative Writing at UCR offers the only Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in the University of California system and MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. It is a growing and dynamic program made up entirely of established writers and poets. Courses at UCR are designed for all students in the language arts, and they emphasize developing each student's skills and talents. Through writing fiction, poetry, nonfiction and/or drama, students examine language and meaning both as practitioners and as readers as they develop and hone essential writing techniques.

      Iowa Summer Writing Festival

      Katie Ford often teaches in the summer

      at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

       

      Since 1987, the Festival has welcomed to the campus of The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 94 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most of us come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives. We come together across the genres and at every level of literary practice in a common enterprise. We come as writers. This is the assumption we make about you, whether you arrive here with the third draft of your novel, a message in a bottle, or merely a bee in your bonnet.

      Manuscript Consultation

      Katie Ford has consulted with poets on their manuscripts for over a decade. Please contact her directly at fordkatie@gmail.com if you are interested in editing and one-on-one mentorship via the correspondence method of your choice (mail, email, Skype or phone).

       

    • Contact me

      For bookings please contact Katie Ford directly here below.

      fordkatie@gmail.com
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