Biography
Katie Berta is the author of the poetry collection retribution forthcoming, from Ohio University Press, which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, West Branch, and The Rumpus, among other magazines. You can find her criticism in The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, West Branch, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She has presented her scholarly work at the American Literature Association conference, in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and in the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin.
Her work has been supported by residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She earned a PhD in creative writing at Ohio University and an MFA from Arizona State University.
She’s previously served as the managing editor of The Iowa Review and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Iowa, as the supervising editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a faculty associate at Arizona State University, and as a post-doctoral fellow at Ohio University.
