Katie Hartsock grew up around Youngstown, Ohio, where Mill Creek Park remains one of her favorite places in the world. She is the author of Wolf Trees (2023) and Bed of Impatiens (2016), both from Able Muse Press. She is an associate professor of English at Oakland University, where she teaches creative writing, English literature, and classical mythology. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband and their two young sons.
Her work has appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, POETRY, 32 Poems, Thrush, The Greensboro Review, Arion, Iron Horse Literary Review, Missouri Review, Pleiades, Plume, The Threepenny Review, The New Criterion, RHINO, Dappled Things, Mezzo Cammin, Nimrod, Image, Birimingham Poetry Review, Literary Matters, and Rattle’s Poets Respond, and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Ecotone, At Length, Commonweal, Ekstasis, ONE ART, New Verse Review, and Classical Outlook. Her current manuscripts include The Last Crusade (containing yes, some Indiana Jones poems) and The Iliad Rewilded, a hybrid text combining translation with vignettes of the epic’s ancient audiences and creative commentary. Selections of her translations of Homer appeared in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University. Her dissertation was entitled, “The Past Like Never Before: Classical Women in Revisionary Poetry from Euripides and Ovid to H.D., Rita Dove, and Carol Ann Duffy.” She received a MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received the major Hopwood award in poetry, and a BA in English Literature with a minor in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. She served as the editor of #WordsForResilience, a community literary project addressing the Covid-19 pandemic from Oakland University’s Center for Public Humanities. She’s a faculty affiliate at the Kateri Institute for Catholic Studies at the University of Michigan, and has taught as a visiting professor at Northwestern University and UM’s Helen Zell Writers Program.
She can be contacted at hartsock [at] oakland dot edu
INTERVIEWS/ESSAYS/READINGS/ET CETERA
On Ave Maria Radio’s Notes from Above, discussing poetry, hymns, and praise: with Herbert, Hopkins, Dickinson, Iris Dement and more!
on caregiving and creativity: an interview for Nancy Reddy’s good creatures series
A reading with Allison Pitinii Davis for Lit Youngstown’s Youngstown Live/d Series
“Revision and the Individual Talent”: on the SLEERICKETS podcast with Matthew Buckley Smith
On the Let Go the Goat podcast with Mike Rippy
“The Old and the New”: an essay on revisionary poetry in the April 2024 issue of The New Criterion
“everyday people always echo myth”: a conversation with a portfolio of poetry – curated by Megan Levad at Tupelo Quarterly
On the Regeneration Podcast with Michael Martin & Mike Sauter
Watch a reading at the Ann Arbor Public Library with me and Russell Brakefield (2023)
Interview with Martha Stuit for A2 Pulp: “Flow State: Katie Hartsock’s Poems Fluidly Move from One Place to the Next in New Wolf Trees Poetry Collection”
Read the starred review at Kirkus for Wolf Trees
Listen to WCBN’s T Hetzel interview poet Jennifer Metsker and me on The Living Writers show; so grateful to talk with these two amazing writers! (show starts at 00:45)
“Well You Must Tell Me, Baby, How Your Head Feels Under Something Like That”: a short essay on Bob Dylan, tradition, and originality
“Hartsock’s book has very little to do with a literal bed of flowers, but rather more to do with lying down in a bed of various desires that requires or inspires a restless (and lyrically fruitful) impatience” : a review of Bed of Impatiens at NewPages.com ~
“All bound up with Saint Augustine, ambiguity, and bedrooms”: interview with RHINO poetry journal
On translating abandonment into abandon: contributor spotlight for Midwestern Gothic
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