Katie Hays
About Katie Hays
K.A. Hays is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Anthropocene Lullaby (Carnegie Mellon 2022). With Keith Waldrop, she is co-translator of the book Before Wisdom: The Early Poems of Paul Verlaine (World Poetry Books 2023). Hays' poems have been featured by Ada Limón on The Slowdown podcast and included in Best American Poetry, among other venues. She occasionally offers Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program courses in poetry at local prisons, and regularly offers poetry workshops on campus. In Fall 2025, she will begin serving as Director of Bucknell's Creative Writing Program.
Education
- MFA, Brown University
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing: poetry, fiction (the short story)
- Contemporary American poetry
- Contemporary fiction
Current Projects and Research Interests
In-progress fourth book of poetry, a newly-published poem from which you can read at Los Angeles Review.
Windthrow, book of poetry, 2017 (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Early Creatures, Native Gods, book of poetry, 2012 (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Dear Apocalypse, book of poetry, 2009 (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Poems published online
from WINDTHROW (2017):
"Heat Goes out Walking in the Cold"
"Flood" (with audio)
from EARLY CREATURES, NATIVE GODS (2012):
from DEAR APOCALYPSE (2009):
"This Morning after Snow, the Bod Scrapes off"
"Exodus"
"Just as, After a Point, Job Cried Out" (short film via MotionPoems'work with Best American Poetry)