Cathryn Essinger is the author of five books of poetry–Wings, or, Does the Caterpillar Dream of Flight?, out now from Dos Madres Press; The Apricot and the Moon, also from Dos Madres Press; A Desk In The Elephant House, which won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press; My Dog Does Not Read Plato, which was the runner up in the Main Street Rag book competition in 2004; and What I Know About Innocence, also from Main Street Rag Publishing Company. What I Know About Innocence includes a DVD video poem produced by her son Dave. Some of the poems are available on YouTube.
Cathryn Essinger’s poems have been anthologized in The Poetry Anthology: 1912-2002, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, and in O Taste and See: Food Poems. Her work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Her new work has appeared in such places as The Southern Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West. She received an Ohio Arts Council grant and was Ohio’s Poet of the Year in 2005.
Books by Cathryn Essinger
