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BIOGRAPHY

Catherine Fletcher is a writer, editor, and producer. She currently is a Virginia Commission for the Arts Poetry Fellow and also serves as Outreach Manager and on the advisory board of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as The Hopper, Hopkins Review, Entropy, and Burning House Press, among others, and she has performed  at venues in the United States, Mexico, and India.

She worked for a decade as Director of Poetry Programs at the New York-based City Lore. In that position, she produced numerous programs highlighting New York City’s grassroots poetry and music traditions including but not limited to the POEMobile series, pairing building-sized poetry projections with live performances in different languages; the nationwide traveling exhibition Poetic Voices of the Muslim World; poetry dinners which featured epic traditions from West Africa as well as many events around New York including readings and performances at the United Nations, the Graduate Center at CUNY, and the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.  She also served as a contributing editor to Rattapallax magazine, specializing in the literature of minority languages. She was a Queens Council on the Arts Artist Peer Circle fellow in 2015 and was a New York Department of Cultural Affairs Su-Casa Artist-in-Residence in 2016. She was a TWP Science and Religion fellow at Arizona State University from 2016 to 2018.

Prior to Catherine’s work in the poetry world, she spent four years as a theater artist in Southern California. She was an ensemble member and Managing Director of the Los Angeles-based Ghost Road Company and served on the organizing committee of the Edge of the World Theater Festival.  

She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

 

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