Catherine Jagoe

Catherine Jagoe is a poet, essayist and translator based in Madison, Wisconsin. She was born in Britain and has a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Cambridge. Her poetry collections include Bloodroot, which won the 2016 American Poetry Prize from Settlement House Press and the Council for Wisconsin Writers Poetry Book Award, and three poetry chapbooks. Poems from her 2007 chapbook Casting Off were featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and also on Poetry Daily.Her essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Chautauqua, American Athenaeum, Ninth Letter, Apeiron Review and other journals. She won a Pushcart Prize as well as the 2014 Kay Levin Short Nonfiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for her essay "A Ring of Bells." Her audio essays have appeared in Wisconsin Public Radio’s series “Wisconsin Life.”