Alice James Books Welcomes Katie Farris

 

Alice James Books is thrilled to welcome Katie Farris to the press! 

Farris’s debut poetry collection Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2023. Big welcome, Katie!

Katie Farris’s work has been commissioned by MoMA and appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, McSweeneys, The Nation, and Poetry. She is the author of the chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, which won the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal, and boysgirls, a hybrid-form book, as well as co-translator of many books of poetry. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Brown University. She is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (Alice James Books, 2023) is her first book of poems.

 

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