McCord, Katherine

Katherine McCord was born in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. She has an MA in English Creative Writing/Poetry and an MFA in Poetry. Her first two books are Island and Living Room (prose poems). She has been published widely in literary reviews and journals, such as American Poetry Review, Margie, Caketrain and Paragraph. She has been a recipient of numerous awards, including, in 2011, a Maryland Individual Artist Award.