Bio:
Cati Porter is a poet, editor and mother based out of Riverside, California. She is the author of Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008)and the chapbooks small fruit songs: prose poems (Pudding House Publications, 2008), (al)most delicious, an ekphrastic series after Modigliani’s nudes (Dancing Girl Press, 2010), and what Desire makes of us, a series written during NaPoWriMo 2009 and published as an e-chapbook with illustrations by Amy Payne (Ahadada books, 2011).
Her current project is My Skies of Small Horses, a semi-finalist for the 2010 Antivenom Prize, the 2010 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Prize, and the 2011 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Prize. From this collection, her poem “Miss Carriage” won So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Literature and Art’s poetry competition, judged by Arielle Greenberg, and her poem “Greed” was a finalist for Crab Creek Review’s poetry competition, judged by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Her poems have been anthologized in Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor (No Tell Books), Letters to the World: Poems from the Women’s Poetry Listserv (Red Hen Press), and White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press), and are forthcoming in an anthology of works inspired by Sylvia Plath.
In 2005 she founded Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry; in 2010, in partnership with the Inlandia Institute, she founded Inlandia: A Literary Journey.
Cati Porter received her MFA in Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
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Latest News:
- Cati will be teaching an 8 to 10 week Creative Writing Workshop for the Inlandia Institute beginning at the end of September through December 2011. Location and time TBA very soon.
- Reading at McCabe & Co Booksellers, August 6, 6 pm, as part of Crestline’s ArtTiques Wine Walk.
- Reading at Beyond Baroque, July 30, 4 pm. With Chella Courington and Menaz Turner.
- what Desire makes of us released by Ahadada Books. FREE download here: www.ahadadabooks.com.
- “Miss Carriage” published in the Spring 2011 issue So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Literature Art as winner of their 2010 Poetry Competition.
