Katie Farris

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Katie Farris’s work appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. Her most recent book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, was published in April 2023 by Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), is shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize, and was included among Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. Her books have been translated into numerous languages, including French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian, and she has won several awards, including a Pushcart Prize.

She was the winner of the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal for A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, about which poet Maureen McLane has written in The Paris Review: “Extraordinary poems—riddling, devastating, peculiarly spritely poems about death, cancer, Emily Dickinson, the limits of mind and body. The heart knocks fast with and for this poet, the top of one’s head blown off, as Emily Dickinson almost said.” Her first book, the hybrid-form text boysgirls (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), was lauded as “truly innovative” by The Prague Post, and as “a tour de force” by Robert Coover.

She is also co-translator of many books of poetry, including Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose and A Country in Which Everyone’s Name is Fear, which was one of World Literature Today’s Notable Books of 2022. Her work was published several anthologies, such as Best New Poets.

Her research areas include hybrid-form writing, poetry, international literature, and environmental literature and writing.

Farris received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from UC Berkeley. She served as the 2019 Irving Bacheller Chair in Creative Writing at Rollins College. She is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, and she’s currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University.

Poem: “When You Walk Over the Earth” | Published in Ecotone magazine, 2019

Poem: “What Would Root” | Published in Poetry Magazine, 2020

Hybrid Piece: “Shopping Phantasmagoria” | Published in MoMA magazine, 2021

Read Four poems by Katie Farris | Published in Granta, 2022

Read three poems by Katie Farris | Published with The Rumpus, Jan. 2023

Poetry Collection: Standing in the Forest of Being Alive | Published by Alice James Books, April 2023

Katie Farris Appointed Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton | Princeton University News, Sept. 2023

Pushcart Prize-winning poet, translator and writer Katie Farris joins Princeton’s creative writing faculty | Lewis Center for the Arts, October 3, 2023

Katie Farris shortlisted for 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize | October 3, 2023