Catherine Barnett poetry reading

Catherine Barnett's first collection of poetry, "Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced", won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published this year by Alice James Books. She grew up on the Stanford Campus, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and earned her MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, The Washington Post, and Barrow Street, among other places. This year she won a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, an Outstanding Service award for her teaching at New York University, and a Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in New York City.