Katherine Larson

Katherine Larson is an American poet, research scientist and field ecologist.

Life
Larson graduated from Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, Arizona in 1996, going on to a double major in creative writing and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. She also holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Virginia.

In 2003, she won a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in creative writing at University of Virginia.

She won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by Louise Glück. Her book, Radial Symmetry, won the 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

She collaborated with Heather Green on The Ghost Net Project at the University of Arizona.

Publications

 * Radial Symmetry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-16920-1