About

Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Empty Me Full (Gunpowder Press, 2024); In a Rind of Light (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020); Raft of Days (Gunpowder Press, 2017); and Instead of Sadness, selected by Dan Gerber for the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Her chapbooks are A Spell for What Comes Next (Miramar Editions, 2018) and All the While (New Women’s Voices finalist from Finishing Line Press, 2006).

Her poems appear widely in venues including Narrative, The Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, Plume, CALYX, Plant-Human Quarterly, I-70 Review, Cider Press Review, Atticus Review, SWWIM, Gyroscope Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review. They’ve been anthologized, featured on The Writer’s Almanac  and Verse Daily, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Orison Anthology, and Best of the Net. Catherine serves as a staff reader for SWWIM and an advisory editor for Anacapa Review. With David Starkey, she is co-creator and -director of Canyon Wren Writing.

English Professor Emeritus at Porterville College, Catherine writes, edits, teaches privately, and collaborates with musician Rob Hodges on ancestral Yokuts land in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada.