Katherine Larson
Katherine Larson is an American poet, molecular biologist and field ecologist.[1][2]
Family background and education
Larson's mother was a fourth-grade teacher with a passion for science and her father worked as a professor of forestry.[1] She graduated from Flagstaff High School, Flagstaff, Arizona in 1996,[3] going on to a double major in creative writing, and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. She also holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Virginia,[4] where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow in creative writing.[5]
Poetry
In 2003 Larson won a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and she is a recipient of The Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize.[6] Her work has appeared in anthologies such as Prentice Hall’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, as well as in journals including AGNI, Poetry, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest.[6][7][8]
In 2009 Larson collaborated with artist Heather Green on The Ghost Net Project at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. 25 shadow boxes, each paired with a poem by Larson, were constructed from salvaged shrimp-boat wood and filled with flotsam and jetsam as a way of examining historical, cultural and ecological relationships in the Sea of Cortez.[9][10][11]
In 2010 Larson was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.[7] Her first collection of poetry, Radial Symmetry, was published by Yale University Press in 2011.[2][12][13] The book was praised in The Independent for "an extraordinary wakefulness, an immersion in nuance that enriches experience"[13], while the The Paris Review said: "The natural world has never felt more physical, more alive with tiny movements and infinite textures."[14] Bookforum enjoyed its "measured sensuousness".[15]
In 2012 Radial Symmetry won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the $10,000 award given annually to poets of promise by Claremont Graduate University.[4][16] The collection also won the Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University and the ForeWord Magazine Gold Medal Prize in the Poetry Category.[12]
Larson lives in Tuscon, Arizona with her husband and daughter.[1][6]
Examples of work
- "Patience", Poetry, March 2006.
- "Love at Thirty-two Degrees", Poetry, March 2006
- "Masculine/Feminine", AGNI
- "Study for Love’s Body", AGNI
- "Metamorphosis"; "Solarium", Kenyon Review, March 2011
References
- ^ a b c "On the NewsHour: Poet Katherine Larson", PBS NewsHour, 14 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ a b Larson, Katherine. Radial Symmetry, Yale: Yale University Press (2011).
- ^ "Scholar Update", Flinn Foundation. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ a b "Alum adds another major poetry award", Flinn Foundation, 08 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Poet, Scientist Katherine Larson In Pursuit of the Unconscious", UVA Top News Daily, 22 June 2004. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ a b c "Katherine Larson", Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ a b "Louise Glück Chooses Katherine Larson as 2010 Yale Younger Poet", 9 March 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ "Love at Thirty-two Degrees by Katherine Larson", Poetry, March 2006. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ Green, Heather & Larson, Katherine. "Ghost Net Project", 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ Regan, Margaret. "Sea Change: Artist Heather Green converts flotsam into something rich and strange", Tucson Weekly, 10 September 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ "Oh Earth, Wait for Me": Conversations about Art and Ecology", University of Arizona, September 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ a b "Radial Symmetry", Yale University Press, 28 March 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ a b Etter, Carrie. "Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson", The Independent, 29 May 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ Rudick, Nicole. "Staff Picks: Robert Walser, Katherine Larson", The Paris Review, 13 May 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ Plunkett, Adam. “Why Critics Praise Bad Poetry”, Bookforum, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ "CGU announces winners of 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards", Claremont Graduate University, 1 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
Publication
- Larson, Katherine. Radial Symmetry, Yale: Yale University Press (2011), ISBN 978-0-300-16920-1.