K A T I E M A R Y A
Hello. I’m a writer and teacher. Writing is a deeply embodied practice for me, and so my process on the page and in the classroom often involves dance and movement elements.
Sugar Work, my debut poetry collection, was selected as the Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award.
I’m at work on a second book of poems (DRUM) about grief, the history of the drumkit, and dance in the Caribbean and Southern United States.
I also work as a literary translator. Animal Spiral, my translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s novel El gato en el remolino was published by 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 publisher for a bilingual edition. Delgado is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a small-scale editorial studio and poetry press in Isabela, Puerto Rico. More about that beautiful work here.
I earned my BA in Spanish from Westmont College, an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I taught for three years as a the Assistant Director of Composition. Currently, I work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University in Kentucky.
Fotos are mine, taken on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for a small, ongoing, and unsophisticated photography project. ❤︎
Sugar Work, my debut poetry collection, was selected as the Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award.
I’m at work on a second book of poems (DRUM) about grief, the history of the drumkit, and dance in the Caribbean and Southern United States.
I also work as a literary translator. Animal Spiral, my translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa’s novel El gato en el remolino was published by 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 publisher for a bilingual edition. Delgado is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a small-scale editorial studio and poetry press in Isabela, Puerto Rico. More about that beautiful work here.
I earned my BA in Spanish from Westmont College, an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I taught for three years as a the Assistant Director of Composition. Currently, I work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University in Kentucky.
Fotos are mine, taken on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for a small, ongoing, and unsophisticated photography project. ❤︎
