K A T I E M A R Y A
writer ︎ teacher ︎ translator ︎ mover
Hello. I am the author of Sugar Work, my debut poetry collection, which was selected as the Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award.
For the past five years, I have been creating a body of performance work and a second collection of poems (DRUM), both of which explore grief and the intersecting worlds of dance and poetry in the Caribbean and the Southern United States. I love to collaborate with dancers, choreographers, and writers who are also considering the healing capacity of movement and dance.
I also work as a literary translator. Animal Spiral, my translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s novel El gato en el remolino is forthcoming from Charco Press in June 2026. And I have completed a translation of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s pivotal poetry collection añosluz (2010); we are currently seeking a publishing home for a bilingual edition. Delgado is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a small-scale editorial studio in Isabela, Puerto Rico. More about that beautiful work here.
I occasionally take on poetry manuscript consultations at a sliding scale. If you want to be in touch, please reach out through email: katiemarya13@gmail.com.
Fotos are mine, taken on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for a small, ongoing and unsophisticated photography project. ❤︎
For the past five years, I have been creating a body of performance work and a second collection of poems (DRUM), both of which explore grief and the intersecting worlds of dance and poetry in the Caribbean and the Southern United States. I love to collaborate with dancers, choreographers, and writers who are also considering the healing capacity of movement and dance.
I also work as a literary translator. Animal Spiral, my translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s novel El gato en el remolino is forthcoming from Charco Press in June 2026. And I have completed a translation of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s pivotal poetry collection añosluz (2010); we are currently seeking a publishing home for a bilingual edition. Delgado is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a small-scale editorial studio in Isabela, Puerto Rico. More about that beautiful work here.
I occasionally take on poetry manuscript consultations at a sliding scale. If you want to be in touch, please reach out through email: katiemarya13@gmail.com.
Fotos are mine, taken on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for a small, ongoing and unsophisticated photography project. ❤︎
