Catherine Tufariello was born in Ithaca, New York and grew up, as the eldest of four daughters, in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst. She received a B.A. in English from SUNY Buffalo and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and specialized in American poetry. After a peripatetic career teaching composition and literature at colleges in the Northeast, the South, and the Midwest, she is currently the Associate Director of Communications for the Project on Civic Reflection at Valparaiso University. She lives in Valparaiso, IN with her husband Jeremy Telman, an assistant professor of law at the university, and their daughter Sophie. In the summer of 2006, she was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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