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Kate Colby

Kate Colby is the author of Fruitlands (Litmus Press, 2006), Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), Beauport (Litmus Press, 2010), and The Return of the Native (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Her first title, Fruitlands, was selected by Rosmarie Waldrop for a Norma Farber First Book Award in 2007. Chapbooks include Rock of Ages (Anadama Press) and A Banner Year (Belladonna), and recent journal publications include New American Writing, Vanitas, No: A Journal of the Arts, EOAGH and Little Red Leaves. A recent interview about her work can be found at Bookslut. She grew up in Massachusetts, interloped in California, and now lives in Providence, RI, where she works as a teacher and copywriter.

• Book of the Year Award poetry finalist. March 2011.
• Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller. January - March 2011.
• Make Magazine review by Alyse Bensel. May 2011.
• New Pages review by Angela Veronica Wong. April 2011.
• H_NGM_N review by Steven Karl. Issue 12. April 2011.
• Publishers Weekly review. February 2011.
• Kelsey Street review by Val Witte. November 30, 2010.
• Litmus Spring Book Party Reading. June 10, 2011.

• Norma Farber First Book Award Winner from the Poetry Society of America. 2007.
• CutBank review by Sommer Browning. March12, 2007.
• Bookslut interview with Kate Greenstreet. March 2008.
• Every Other Day interview with Kate Greenstreet. April 27, 2007.