About

CATHERINE BARNETT is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf Press); Human Hours (2018 Believer Book Award, New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection); The Game of Boxes (James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets); and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award).

A Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she was recently honored with a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere.

She's been a visiting professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Barnard College, and Princeton University. She currently teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.

General Inquiries

Reach out to Catherine Barnett for more information about her books, teaching, and editing.

Publicity Inquiries

For events, readings, workshops, or interviews, contact Caelan Ernest Nardone at Graywolf.