about

Katie Berta is the author of collective, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in spring 2027, and retribution forthcoming, which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in 2024. It was also a finalist for an Ohio Book Award and long listed for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Verse Daily, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, West Branch, The Rumpus, and Sixth Finch, among other magazines. You can find her book reviews in The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, West Branch, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She has presented her scholarly work at the American Literature Association conference, and in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and The Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She received a PhD in Creative Writing from Ohio University and an MFA from Arizona State University. She’s previously served as the managing editor of The Iowa Review and as the supervising editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and has taught creative writing and literary publishing at Oberlin College, the University of Iowa, and Ohio University. She currently teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.