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Catherine Barnett

Biography

Catherine Barnett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from Princeton University, and earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published in 2004 by Alice James Books. She’s won a Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, an Outstanding Service award for her teaching at New York University, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Her poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review, the Iowa Review, Pleiades, Barrow Street, the Hat, and the Washington Post; her essays and interviews have been widely published. As poet-in-residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, she teaches writing to young mothers in New York City’s shelter system.

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Become a T&W Writer

If you are a writer who wants to teach for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, download and fill out an Application Form and mail it with a copy of your résumé to: Workshops, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 520 Eighth Ave., Ste. 2020, New York, NY 10018. (Note: No résumés will be accepted without the completed application form.)

Writers working with T&W are experienced, dynamic teachers committed to inspiring the love of language and writing in their students. T&W writers have published their work in books and in national magazines such as the New Yorker, Essence, and the New York Review of Books, and they have won many awards. They offer students a glimpse into the life of a writer, and inspire the students to create their own literary art.