Katy Didden grew up in Washington D.C., and has lived in many cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, Eugene, and Muncie. She holds degrees from Washington University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Missouri, and she has taught courses in creative writing, composition, literature, and film.
Her first book, The Glacier’s Wake, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press and is available for purchase here or here or here. Her poems and reviews appear in journals such as Ecotone, Bat City Review, The Kenyon Review, Image, The Missouri Review, Smartish Pace, The Sewanee Review, and Poetry. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.
She has received scholarships and residencies from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, and the MacDowell Colony.
After earning her PhD, she held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Micah Program at St. Louis University, and she co-curated the Observable Reading Series with the poet Rickey Laurentiis for the St. Louis Poetry Center. She held a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University (2013–2014), and taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA Program at the University of Oregon. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Ball State University.
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