Katy Bohinc

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Katy Bohinc grew up in the outskirts of Cleveland and graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in pure mathematics and comparative literature, leaving her studies for a time to work in Beijing with the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, a human rights organization. Since 2013 she has collaborated with Lee Ann Brown in directing Tender Buttons Press, a distinguished publisher of experimental women’s poetry for which she edited Tender Omnibus: The First Twenty-Five Years of Tender Buttons Press (2015) and Please Add To This List: A Guide To Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets and Experiments (2014).

Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain (Tender Buttons, 2014), letters to the French philosopher Alain Badiou about poetry, philosophy, and love; Trinity Star Trinity (Scarlet Imprint, 2017), a book of poems about the divine feminine; and Scorpio (Miami University Press, 2018). She lives in New York City, where she works as a data scientist and marketer.