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Kate Northrop is an assistant professor of English/Creative Writing at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Her poems have been published in American Poetry Review (APR), Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Rattle, and Louisiana Literature.
She has received many honours, including the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Individual Fellowship, and the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Iowa.
Her first book, Back Through Interruption [review], was chosen by Lynn Emanuel for the 2001 Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Prize, and was published in 2002 by Kent State University Press.
She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a cute little white dog named "Whacker."
