Katherine Larson

Katherine Larson is the author of Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011), selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize; The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press, 2016), winner of the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize (former recipients include Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Adam Zagajewski); and Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions, 2025), a book of lyric essays. A poet and essayist, Larson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Orion, Poetry, and Poetry Northwest. Her honors include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant, and the Foreword Indies Gold Medal in Poetry. She is active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Sonoran Desert and Upper Gulf of California.