Katrina Vandenberg

Katrina Vandenberg

Katrina Vandenberg is the author of two books of poems, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World and Atlas. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Poets & Writers, and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor of essays to Orion. One of these was honored as notable in Best American Essays; another received a Pushcart Prize. 

Katrina has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Fulbright Foundations, and held residencies at the Amy Clampitt House, the Poetry Center, and the MacDowell Colony. After decades of teaching and serving as the poetry editor of Water~Stone Review, she recently stepped back from her work as a tenured professor in the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University to be a full-time writer and mom.