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Kate Rushin is the author of The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books).
Her “The Bridge Poem” appears in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings
by Radical Women of Color, a ground-breaking feminist anthology edited by Cherríe
Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Recipient of the Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry
Prize and the Grolier Poetry Prize, her work is widely anthologized and has
been published in such journals as Callaloo.
A Connecticut
resident, Kate currently teaches creative writing at the Greater Hartford
Academy of the Arts. Previously, she taught at Wesleyan University, where she served as Adjunct Assistant Professor and Visiting Writer in African American Studies. She has read at Hill-Stead Museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry
Festival, the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival and Smith College Poetry Center,
among many other places, and has led workshops for the Omega
Institute for Holistic Studies and Cave
Canem Foundation. She has served as a judge for the Connecticut State
University-IMPAC Young Writers Award, the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student
Poetry Contest, and the NEA’s/Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud.
Kate received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.F.A. from Brown University.
She is a former Fellow of The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
and a graduate fellow of Cave Canem Foundation.
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