Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin is an American poet born in 1969 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Potomac, Maryland. She earned a B.A. from Marlboro College (1993), M.F.A.s from the University of Houston (poetry, 1997) and Iowa Writers' Workshop (fiction, 1999), and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati (2003); she teaches at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Her notable works include poetry collections World’s Tallest Disaster (2001, Kathryn A. Morton Prize), Fragment of the Head of a Queen (2007), Oracle (2015), and Event Horizon (2022), along with major awards such as the Whiting Award (2007) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).