Catherine Pierce (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)

Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days, published by Saturnalia Books in October 2020.

Her other books are The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words.

Pierce’s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. An NEA Fellow and two-time Pushcart Prize winner, she is professor of English at Mississippi State University, where she co-directs the creative writing program.

Books mentioned in the interview – Danger Days, The Tornado is the World, The Girls of Peculiar and Famous Last Words.