CAITLIN ROACH

Caitlin Roach is a queer poet from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, jubilat, Colorado Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Her work has received prizes and recognition from the Granum Foundation, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York for the Yeats Poetry Prize, Narrative Magazine’s 15th and 10th Annual Poetry Contests, the International Literary Awards Rita Dove Award in Poetry, and others. A three-time National Poetry Series Finalist and Tin House Workshop resident alum, she earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her first book SURVEILLE was chosen by Amaud Jamaul Johnson as winner of the 2024 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Wisconsin Press.