Katie Ford
American Poet
Katie Ford is an American poet, essayist, and professor.
Katie Ford is the author of If You Have to Go (Graywolf Press, 2018), Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014), Colosseum (Graywolf, 2008), and Deposition (Graywolf Press, 2002). She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Levis Reading Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.
“Don’t say it’s the beautiful I praise. I praise the human, gutted and rising.”