Kate Colby


Kate Colby is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked for several years as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on the board of The LAB art space, and later as a grant writer and copyeditor. In 2008, she moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she currently works as an editor and serves on the board of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts.
Her poems and essays have appeared in A Public Space, Aufgabe, The Awl, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, The Nation, The Rumpus, Verse and The Volta, among other journals and periodicals, and has been featured at the RISD, deCordova and Isabella Stewart Gardner museums.

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