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 Colby in 2016 | |
| Born | 1974 (age 51–52) Boston, Massachusetts |
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Kate Colby (born 1974, Boston) is an American poet and essayist. She grew up in Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She worked for several years as a curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on the board of The LAB art space, and later as a grant writer and copyeditor. Her first poetry collection, Fruitlands (2006), won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and her third book, Beauport (2015), was a finalist for Foreword Reviews' Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Harper's, Literary Hub, The Nation, The Paris Review and Poetry, among other journals and periodicals, and has been featured at the RISD, deCordova and Isabella Stewart Gardner museums. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island and teaches poetry at University of Pennsylvania.
