Kate Colby

B. 1974

Kate Colby

Kate Colby was born in Boston and grew up in Massachusetts. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her books of poetry and essays include Fruitlands (2006), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, I Mean (2015), and Paradoxx (2025).

She has received fellowships and support from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the T. S. Eliot Foundation, the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjuctions, Harper’s, Literary Hub, The Nation, Paris Review, and more. She was a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts and lives in Providence, where she teaches and makes books with Red Nun Collective.

A Body Drawn By Its Own Memory

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Cicatrix

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Don’t Look Up

from I Mean

Meridian

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:A Room of Its Own

Slide

From the magazine:Cicatrix

From the magazine:Don’t Look Up

From the magazine:A Room of Its Own