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Creative Writing Program

1000 E. University Ave.

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-3269

Fax: 307-766-3189

Email: cw@uwyo.edu

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Kate Northrop

Professor for the Creative Writing Program

M.F.A., University of Iowa

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

knorthro@uwyo.edu

Hoyt Hall 340

Publications 

Homewrecker, New Letters, 2022

cuntstruck, C & R Press, 2017

Clean, Persea Books, 2011 

Things Are Disappearing Here, Persea Books, 2007 

Back Through Interruption, Kent State University Press, 2003 

Recent Publications

on Terrain https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/kate-northrop/

on Blackbird https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v21n3/poetry/northrop-k/index.shtml

on Verse Daily http://www.versedaily.org/2023/jitterynocturne.shtml

Honors and Distinctions 

Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, 2022

Fellowships, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, 2015 

Jeannette Haien Ballard Writers Award, 2014 

Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review. January 2008. Things Are Disappearing Here

Finalist, James Laughlin Award, 2008. Things Are Disappearing Here

Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, 2001. Back Through Interruption

Runner-Up, Great Lakes New Writers Award, 2003. Back Through Interruption

Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002. 

Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2003. 

Paumanok Poetry Award, 2003. 

American Academy of Poets Prize, 1995 

UW Awards

Wyoming Honors Organization for Excellence in Teaching Upper Division Classes, 2021

Ellbogen Award for Meritorious Teaching, 2020

Promoting Intellectual Engagement Award, 2019

Contact Us

Creative Writing Program

1000 E. University Ave.

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-3269

Fax: 307-766-3189

Email: cw@uwyo.edu

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