Katie Farris


Katie Farris is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor.

Life and career

Farris is the author of BOYSGIRLS, which has been lauded as “truly innovative”, “a tour de force”, and “a book with gigantic scope. At some points it reads like the book of Genesis; at others, like a dream-turned-nightmare. From the opening lines the author grabs you by the throat.”.
Her work has appeared widely in prominent journals such as McSweeneys, Granta, The Believer, Poetry, Poetry London, Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as platforms like MoMA. Her translations have also been anthologized in texts such as New European Poets and Penguin Book of Classical Russian Poetry.
She is the recipient of Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review, Flash Fairy Tale Prize from the Fairy Tale Review, and Orison Award in Fiction .
Berlin-based press Five Hundred Places published her Thirteen Intimacies. Next year, Valparaiso Ediciones in Mexico City will publish a Spanish language edition of Farris’ work, niñosniñas, translated by the acclaimed Mexican writer Pura López-Colomé.
Farris is also the co-translator of Polina Barskova's This Lamentable City and Guy Jean's If I Were Born in Prague. Farris won the DJS Translation Award from Poetry East/West for her co-translations in New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012 Farris has co-edited Gossip and Metaphysics: Prose by Russian Modernist Poets.
Farris has taught at UC Berkeley and Brown University and for many years in the MFA Program at San Diego State University where she won an Innovation in Teaching Award. She has also served as the core faculty member at New England College's Low Residency MFA Program, where she co-founded graduate program in fiction. She is currently the Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Published works

Book
Translations
Editor