Kate Farrell was born in Oklahoma City, the second of 5 children, to Raymond and Eileen Dougherty and grew up in Southern Pines, NC. After the death of her first husband, she moved with her two small children to New York to complete a literature degree at Columbia University and be a poet. There, she studied with the poet Kenneth Koch, soon a fast friend and generous mentor with whom she would collaborate on projects for years to come. In their first collaboration, she was Koch's fellow teacher in the poetry workshop in the American Nursing Home on which Koch based his book, I Never Told Anybody, Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home, a volume she helped write. Farrell's teaching (wrote Koch) was "a large part" of what the book was about.
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