Catherine Doty is a poet, artist, and teacher born and raised near Garrett Mountain in Paterson, New Jersey.

She is the author of Wonderama (CavanKerry, 2021), a volume of poems; Momentum (CavanKerry, 2004), a volume of poems; and Just Kidding (Avocet, 1999), a collection of cartoons.

She is the recipient of a Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times (2006) and Billy Collins’ 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005). She has worked as a visiting artist for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Frost Place, Murphy Writing, and schools throughout New Jersey.

Cat can be contacted at
dotycatherine@gmail.com