Kate DeLay

Kate DeLay is a poet from Tennessee. A 2025 Pushcart Prize winner, her work can be found or forthcoming in the 2025 Best New Poets anthology, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, swamp pink, Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and elsewhere. Kate is the winner of the 2023 William Matthews Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss. A former Editor of Black Warrior Review, Kate is a graduate of University of Alabama’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing and is a Ph.D. student in Poetry. Find her at katedelaypoet.com.