Kate Northrop

Poet Kate Northrop earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her lyrical poems engage themes of history, loss, and return. In a 2009 interview with Danielle Sellers for the Country Dog Review, Northrop discussed the significance of landscape on her work, particularly how, to paraphrase Wallace Stegner, living in the West makes her feel both “[m]ore significant, more insignificant: these heights and great distances make me smaller (dwarfed by landscape) and larger (more often alone, far from the crowd). It seems to me I feel more keenly my own boundaries, where I begin and end. … I can only say it this way—it’s a feeling of being a bit too stark, too clean.”
 
Northrop’s poetry collections include Clean (2011); Things are Disappearing Here (2007), a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award; and Back Through Interruption (2002), which won the Kent State University Press Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
 
A contributing editor for the American Poetry Review, Northrop has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Paumanok Poetry Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Northrop teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming.