Katie Hartsock

Born and raised around Youngstown, Ohio, Katie Hartsock earned a BA from the University of Cincinnati, an MFA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Northwestern University. She is the author of a chapbook, Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays (Toadlily Press, 2014) and the poetry collection Bed of Impatiens (Able Muse Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, Ecotone, The Threepenny Review, POETRY, 32 Poems, Thrush, The New Criterion, The Greensboro Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Image, Arion, Pleiades, Birmingham Poetry Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Plume, and elsewhere. Her current projects include Songs of the Iliad, a hybrid text combining translation with vignettes of the epic’s ancient audiences.  Selections of her translations appeared in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.

Hartsock received a Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award, a Helen Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Poetry, and a writer’s residency from the Eastern Frontier Education Foundation. She has taught at Northwestern University, and she currently teaches creative writing, literature, and mythology at Oakland University. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, the novelist and translator Jonathan Geltner, and their two young sons. Her second book of poems, Wolf Trees, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press in late 2022.