Last Name
DeLay
Full Name
Kate DeLay
Bio
Kate DeLay is a poet from Tennessee. A 2025 Pushcart Prize winner, her work can be found or forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pleiades, swamp pink, Adroit Journal, Quarterly West, Frontier Poetry, Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. Kate is the winner of the 2023 William Matthews Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss, and a 2024 Djanikian Scholars Finalist. A former Editor of Black Warrior Review, Kate is a recent graduate of University of Alabama’s MFA in Creative Writing and is a PhD Poetry student at FSU. Find her at katedelaypoet.com.
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Area
Poetry