Catherine Strisik

Catherine Strisik is a poet, teacher, and editor. She was the 2020–2021 poet laureate of Taos, New Mexico, and is a recipient of the Taoseña Award as Woman of Impact for her literary contributions in northern New Mexico. Strisik is the author of Insectum Gravitis (Main Street Rag, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award in Poetry; The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016), winner of the 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Poetry; and Thousand-Cricket Song (Plain View Press, 2010). She is a cofounder and the editor of the Taos Journal of Poetry, and she serves on the advisory board of Pocket Samovar. Strisik has over 30 years of publications, and her poetry has been translated into Greek, Persian, and Bulgarian.

Her poems have been published in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Poet Lore, Drunken Boat, Ergon, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Kaleidoscope, Puerto del Sol, Tusculum Review, The Maynard, among other publications. She has received grants, honors, and prizes from CutThroat, Peregrine, Comstock Review, and the Puffin Foundation, as well as residencies at Lakkos Artists, Crete, Vermont Studio Center, and the Community of Writers, among others. Strisik has held small private workshops in Crete, and she offers editorial services, private consultations, and small group poetry workshops. She divides her time between Taos, New Mexico, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts.