Catherine Jagoe
Catherine Jagoe is a writer and translator based in Madison, Wisconsin.
She was born in Britain and has a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Cambridge. She moved to the US in the late 1980's. Catherine's poetry book Bloodroot won the Settlement House American Poetry Prize and was published in October 2016. She is also the author of two shorter poetry chapbooks, Casting Off and News from the North. Her poems have been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and also on Poetry Daily. Her essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, 2016 edition, The Gettysburg Review, Chautauqua, American Athenaeum, and Ninth Letter, as well as on the "Wisconsin Life" series at Wisconsin Public Radio. She has won awards from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and So To Speak magazine as well as a Pushcart Prize.
Catherine's voice, both in poetry and prose, is a lyrical one. She writes about the intersection between our outer and inner lives in their many forms—domestic, natural and emotional. As an immigrant and translator who has lived in several different countries (England, Spain, France, Nigeria, the U.S.), she is fascinated by the peculiarities of different landscapes and languages, and by the notion of home—the homes we lose and the homes we create.
She pays close attention to the natural world wherever she finds herself, and spends as much time outdoors as she can.
She was born in Britain and has a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Cambridge. She moved to the US in the late 1980's. Catherine's poetry book Bloodroot won the Settlement House American Poetry Prize and was published in October 2016. She is also the author of two shorter poetry chapbooks, Casting Off and News from the North. Her poems have been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and also on Poetry Daily. Her essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, 2016 edition, The Gettysburg Review, Chautauqua, American Athenaeum, and Ninth Letter, as well as on the "Wisconsin Life" series at Wisconsin Public Radio. She has won awards from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and So To Speak magazine as well as a Pushcart Prize.
Catherine's voice, both in poetry and prose, is a lyrical one. She writes about the intersection between our outer and inner lives in their many forms—domestic, natural and emotional. As an immigrant and translator who has lived in several different countries (England, Spain, France, Nigeria, the U.S.), she is fascinated by the peculiarities of different landscapes and languages, and by the notion of home—the homes we lose and the homes we create.
She pays close attention to the natural world wherever she finds herself, and spends as much time outdoors as she can.
