Catherine Pierce is the author of Famous Last Words (Saturnalia, 2008) and a chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State, 2004). Her second full-length collection, The Girls of Peculiar, will be published by Saturnalia Books in 2012. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Boston Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Blackbird, Third Coast, Sixth Finch, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Arts and Letters, and elsewhere. Her poem “Postcards from Her Alternate Lives” is included in The Best American Poetry 2011, edited by Kevin Young. Catherine grew up in Delaware, then earned her B.A. from Susquehanna University, her M.F.A. from the Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. She now lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where she teaches and co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.
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