Katrina Roberts

Katrina Roberts received her AB from Harvard University, where she studied with Seamus Heaney, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied with Jorie Graham.

She is the author of four books of poetry: Underdog (University of Washington Press, 2011); Friendly Fire (Lost Horse Press, 2008), selected by Robin Becker as the winner of the 2007 Idaho Prize in Poetry; The Quick (University of Washington Press, 2005); and How Late Desire Looks (Gibbs-Smith, 1997), winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize.

In her review of The Quick, Lia Purpura writes, “Katrina Roberts is a poet of wise abundance, spending it all, saving nothing, whose words I trust to mine and mind their ever-generative sources.”

Roberts has received grants from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the St. Botolph Society, and was named Theodor Morrison Poetry Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has taught at Boston University, the College of the Holy Cross, Harvard University Extension School, the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College, Keene State College, the Northwest Writers Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and the University of Iowa. She is currently the Mina Schwabacher Professor of English/Creative Writing and Humanities at Whitman College, where she also directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series. Roberts, with her husband, co-owns and operates a winery and distillery in Washington State. She lives in Walla Walla, Washington.

Bibliography

Underdog (University of Washington Press, 2011)
Friendly Fire (Lost Horse Press, 2008)
The Quick (University of Washington Press, 2005)
How Late Desire Looks (Gibbs-Smith, 1997)