Catherine Barnett

Catherine Barnett (born 1960) is an American poet and educator.

Life
Barnes was born in San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Barnett is an instructor at New York University and Teachers & Writers Collabrative. As poet-in-residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, she teaches writing to young mothers in New York City’s shelter system. She also works as an independent editor and recently collaborated with the composer Richard Einhorn on the libretto for "The Origin," his multimedia oratorio about the life of Charles Darwin. In addition, she is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.

She is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2003), winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has published widely in journals and magazines including The Washington Post, Barrow Street, Shenandoah, Pleiades, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Hat, and The Massachusetts Review.

Recognition

 * 2006 Guggenheim fellowship
 * 2004 Whiting Writer's Award
 * 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
 * 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award

Publications

 * Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2003)