Catherine Fletcher is a writer, sound artist, and producer. She currently is a Virginia Commission for the Arts Poetry Fellow and a Creature Conserve Mentee. She also serves on the Literary Advisory Board of the Poetry Society of Virginia and on the Board of Directors of Seven Cities Writers Project. 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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