Professional Bio
Catherine Pierce co-directs MSU's creative writing program, and teaches classes in creative writing and American literature. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Crab Orchard Review, Court Green, FIELD, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, Barrow Street, Blackbird, Mid-American Review, Third Coast, Best American Poetry 2011, and elsewhere. Her collection Famous Last Words was selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and was published in 2008. Her forthcoming collection, The Girls of Peculiar, will be published by Saturnalia in 2012. She is also the author of a chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State 2004), a winner of the Wick Chapbook Competition. She joined the faculty at Mississippi State in 2007.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2007
M.F.A., The Ohio State University, 2003
B.A., Susquehanna University, 2000
Teaching Interests:
Creative Writing, poetry
20th Century American literature
Recent Courses:
Publications:
Books
The Girls of Peculiar
forthcoming 2012, 80 pp.
ISBN 978-0983368625
Saturnalia
Famous Last Words
2008, 80 pp.
ISBN 0-97549-907-6
Saturnalia
Chapbook
Animals of Habit
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Three, #7
2004, 40 pp
ISBN 0-87338-805-4
Kent State University Press
Recent Publications
“Fire Blight,” “The Universe is a Madam,” “Without Ceremony.” FIELD (forthcoming).
“Dear Day.” Boston Review (forthcoming).
“The Delinquent Girls,” “The Drama Girls,” “The Quiet Girls,” “The Geek Girls,” and “She Gets Drunk and Talks Too Much at Her High School Reunion.” Blackbird (forthcoming).“Dear Self I Might Have Been.” The Cincinnati Review (forthcoming).
“Any Escape Hatch.” Ninth Letter 7.2 (2010).“Postcards From Her Alternate Lives” and “The women from the 70s are beautiful.” Court Green 7 (2010).
“Dear Atom Bomb” and “Emergence.” Indiana Review 30.2 (2009): 78-80.
“Reading Faulkner at 17, You Foresee Your Reckoning.” Slate, featured October 21-27 (2008). <www.slate.com>
“The Books Fill Her Apartment Like Birds” and “A Short Biography of the American People by City.” Ploughshares 34.1 (2008): 141-143.
“The Guidance Counselor to the Girl” and “Reading YM at the Pool, Age 12.” Crab Orchard Review 13.2 (2008): 170-172.
“High School: A Triptych,” “Ocean City, 1958,” and “Postcards From Her Future Self.” New Madrid, Emerging Poets Feature 3.2 (2008): 65-69.
Reprint. “Epithalamium.” Best New Poets 2007 (anthology). Samovar Books, 2007.
“In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir,” “In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Slasher Flick,” and “In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Western.” Blackbird 6.2 (2007
