A poet and translator, Katie Farris earned her MFA from Brown University and is an associate professor of creative writing at Princeton University. She wrote boysgirls (Tupelo Press, 2019) and the memoir-in-poems Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (Alice James Books, 2023), which was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and named to Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2023. Her chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving won the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal. She has received the Pushcart Prize and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, and co-translates with the poet Ilya Kaminsky.
