Katie Ford Bio

Katie Ford Katie Ford is the author of four books of poems, most recently, *If You Have to Go* (Graywolf Press). Her third, *Blood Lyrics*, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize. Her second, *Colosseum*, was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the *Virginia Quarterly Review*, and led to a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize.

Her poems have appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The American Poetry Review*, and *The Norton Introduction to Literature*. In addition to “The Anchoress,” Ford’s work has been commissioned by the Poetry Society of America and the Brooklyn Art and Song Society. She holds degrees in theology from Harvard University and in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and lives in South Pasadena with her daughter. fordkatie.com