Katy Didden is a poet who is interested in the relationship between text and image, the history of the elegy, and creative writing and the environment. Her first book, The Glacier’s Wake, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press, and was published in 2013. Her new book of mixed-media erasure poems, “Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland” (a collaboration with illustrator Kevin Tseng), is forthcoming with Tupelo Press in October 2022.

She has published her work in journals such as Ecotone, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Image, Poetry, 32 Poems, and The Kenyon Review, and her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

She earned her MFA from the University of Maryland, and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and she was a 2013-2014 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.  In 2018, she participated in Banff Research in Culture’s Beyond Anthropocene residency, where she collaborated with a group of scholars, scientists, and artists to create the Almanac for the Beyond (Tropic Editions, 2019).

She is currently an Associate Professor at Ball State University.