Catherine Wagner



Catherine Wagner (born 1969) is an American poet and academic.

Life
Wagner was born in Rangoon, Burma. She lived in Asia and the Middle East until 1977, when her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1994), and University of Utah (Ph.D., 2000).

Wagner is the author of Miss America (2001), Macular Hole (2004), My New Job (2009), and Nervous Device (2012).

Her work has appeared in anthologies including The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (2012 edition, forthcoming), Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (forthcoming from Reality Street, 2012), Poets on Teaching, Starting Today: Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, Gurlesque, State of the Union: 50 Political Poems, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years, and The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800 to the Present, among others.

She is associate professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Recognition

 * Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship (1990)
 * Teaching-Writing Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1992-1994
 * Steffensen Cannon Fellowship, University of Utah, 1997-1999

Poetry

 * Fraction Anthems (chapbook). New York: 811 Books, 1999.
 * Hotel Faust (chapbook). Sheffield/Cheltenham, England: West House Books/Gratton Street Irregulars, 2001.
 * Boxes (chapbook). Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books (now Mindmade Books, 2001).
 * Miss America. New York: Fence Books, 2001. ISBN=978-0-9663324-7-6
 * Imitating (chapbook). London: Leafe Press, 2004.
 * Exercises (chapbook). New York: 811 Books, 2004.
 * Macular Hole. New York: Fence Books, 2004. ISBN=978-0-9740909-1-7
 * Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large. (chapbook, letterpress). Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.
 * Articulate How (chapbook). Washington, DC: Big Game Books, 2008.
 * Hole in the Ground (chapbook). Oxford, OH: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.
 * Bornt (chapbook). Miniature handmade chapbook. Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Dusie Press, 2009.
 * My New Job. New York: Fence Books, 2009. ISBN=978-1-934200-26-1
 * Nervous Device. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2012. ISBN=978-0-87286-565-5

Criticism

 * Review of Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia, Chicago Review, Winter 2007
 * Selection of and commentary on previously unpublished poems by Barbara Guest, Chicago Review Barbara Guest issue
 * "Revision," an essay, Evening May Come, Issue 9, September 2011


 * Catherine Wagner PennSound page
 * "An Interview with Catherine Wagner", Bookslut, June 2007
 * Archive of the Now
 * Reading at Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetry Festival, Cambridge 2006
 * "My What to Replace My"; "Who Admitted You?"; "An Hendy Hap"; "There Was a Place in the Brain, a Red Knot"; "The Divinity of Man", Boston Review, December 2001/January 2002
 * Delirious Hem/Dusie Delirious Adventskalendar, December 2009
 * Catherine Wagner's City Lights Author's page