Poet Catherine Wagner was born to missionary parents in Burma and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Wagner is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, and the University of Utah's Ph.D in Literature program. She is the author of Macular Hole (Fence Books) and Miss America (Fence).

Ms. Wagner will participate in an informal discussion of poetry on Monday, 6 October, from 4 to 5pm in CC106 and read her poetry at 7pm in the Niemann Media Theater of the Hedberg Library.

POETRY BOOKS
Wagner, Catherine. Hole in the Ground. Oxford, Ohio: Slack Buddha Press, 2008.

----- Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large. Fort Collins, CO: Bonfire Press, 2007.

-----. Macular Hole. [Hanover, N.H.?]: Fence Books, 2004.

-----. Miss America. Fence Books, 2001.


WEB PUBLICATIONS
Wagner, Catherine. The Politics of Meter: on Traditional Forms
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5906

-----. Objections to the Beauty-Object: A Reading of Two Poems by Barbara Guest.
(First published in Five Fingers Review, Winter 2006, ed. Jaime Robles.)
http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/feature-article-by-catherine-wagner.html


INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Armantrout, Rae. Boston Review: Poet's Sampler.
http://bostonreview.net/BR26.6/wagner.html

Tony Frazer, reviews, in Shearsman 61
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman61/reviews61c.html

Jacket 33 - July 2007 - Catherine Wagner in conversation with Nathan Smith, 13 April 2007.
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/wagner-icw-smith.shtml

Ward, Zoe. An Interview with Catherine Wagner.
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_06_011222.php

Reviews of Macular Hole by Peach Friedman and by Steffi Drewes.
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_4_2006/current/alerts/pdfs/FRIEDMANDREWES.pdf

Podcast: "On Writing with Catherine Wagner"
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/digest/2008/02/18/podcast-on-writing-with-catherine-wagner.56541