About Katherine Gaffney

Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared in jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. She has attended the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, the SAFTA Residency, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a scholar. Her first chapbook, Once Read as Ruin, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her first full-length collection, Fool in a Blue House, won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and was published in 2023. She lives and teaches in Champaign, Illinois.