Kathryn Rhett’s poetry collection,  Immortal Village, is forthcoming in 2018 with Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is the author of Souvenir (essays), and Near Breathing (memoir), and is the editor of the anthology Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, River Teeth and elsewhere. The recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in nonfiction, she is a professor at Gettysburg College. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, and in the Pan-European MFA at Cedar Crest College. As a finalist for the Wachtmeister Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2017, she has been awarded a fellowship at the VCCA.

Website: http://kathrynrhett.com/

Publications

• Souvenir , Carnegie Mellon University Press (November 7, 2014)
• Near Breathing , Duquesne University Press (August 1, 1997)
• Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis , Anchor Doubleday (September 1, 1997)

Awards

• VCCA Fellowship(2017)

Employment

• Associate Professor of English at Gettysburg College (September 1997 - )
• Instructor at Queens University of Charlotte Low-Residency MFA (May 2003 - )
• Instructor at Cedar Crest Pan-European Low-Residency MFA (January 2013 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University (May 1984)
• Master of Arts in Poetry, The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University (May 1986)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa (May 1989)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Screenwriting, Poetry