Kathryn Levy

Kathryn Levy is the author of the poetry collections, Reports (New Rivers Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2014 Midwest Book Award, and Losing the Moon (Canio’s Editions, 2006) as well as The Nutcracker Teacher Resource Guide (New York City Ballet Education Department, 1996), a guide to poetry instruction. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in various publications, including The Progressive, Blackbird, Slate, Cimarron Review. The Minnesota Review, Hanging Loose, The Southampton Review, Provincetown Arts, The Seattle Review, The Manhattan Poetry Review, Poetry Quarterly, Blink, The East Hampton Star, Dahse Magazine, and the Italian journal Lo Straniero, as well as the anthologies The Light of City and Sea (Street Press, 2006), We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Press, 2007), Adventures in the Spirit (Ohio State University Press, 2007) and the Japanese anthology 36 New York Poets (Shichosha, 2022). Her work has been set to music by composers David Brandenburg, Dennis Tobenski and Scott Wheeler. She has received numerous writing fellowships, including awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Cummington Community of the Arts. She was awarded a Special Mention from the 2022 Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Press 53 Poetry Prize. Her readings include appearances at the Bryant Park Reading Room, Harvard Club of Boston, KGB Reading Series, The Bowery Poetry Club, Middlebury College, Stony Brook Southampton College, Canio’s Books, John Jermain Library, and Southampton College Public Radio. Ms. Levy was founding director of The Poetry Exchange and the New York City Ballet Poetry Project, two poetry-in-the-schools organizations. She works as a teacher and arts consultant and divides her time between Sag Harbor and New York City.