Biography
Catherine Fletcher is a playwright, poet, and an editor
for Rattapallax magazine. She served
for a decade as the Director of Poetry Programs at the New York-based
organization, 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 travelling 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. Catherine 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 is currently a TWP Science and Religion fellow. Her poetry
has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Hopkins Review, Entropy, New Contrast, Newtown Literary, and Bird’s Thumb, among others, and she has performed as a poet at venues in
the United States, Mexico, and India.
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 divides her time between Virginia and New York.
She divides her time between Virginia and New York.
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