K A T I E  M A R Y A

Katie Marya (Atlanta, Georgia) is a writer, literary translator, and movement artist. Sugar Work, her first poetry collection, won the Editor's Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award and was featured in The New York Times. Her translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa's novel El gato en el remolino was published as Animal Spiral by Charco Press in June 2026.

Her work has appeared in AGNI, North American Review, Guernica, Waxwing, Salamander, Fence, and on the literary podcast The Slowdown Show. Her multidisciplinary installation, A Yellow Silence, opened at PoPs: Global Frequencies, a public art exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska in 2019, and she has danced in several productions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Dance's annual showcase, including in Millie Heckler's Running into Time (2025) and in her own Woman in the Drum Forest (2024). She has received grants from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Kimmel Nelson Center for the Arts, and Art Omi.

Marya earned her BA in Spanish from Westmont College, an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University in Kentucky.

She has completed a translation of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s pivotal poetry collection añosluz (2010) and is 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. 

Fotos taken by Marya on a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for a small, ongoing, and unsophisticated photography project.