Caitlin Doyle is a poet, essayist, librettist, educator, and Long Island native. She is a faculty member in the Frost Farm Poetry Conference, and she recently taught as Visiting Assistant Professor and Writer-In-Residence at Washington & Jefferson College. Caitlin's work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The Irish Times, The Threepenny Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Her poetry has also been featured through the The Slowdown, PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, Poetry Daily, the Poetry Foundation “Poem of the Day” Series, and American Life in Poetry. Caitlin has received prizes, scholarships, and fellowships through the Yaddo Colony, the MacDowell Colony, the Frost Farm, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Amy Award Series through Poets & Writers, the P.E.O. Scholar Foundation, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, among others. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, she has served as the James Merrill House Writer-In-Residence in Stonington, CT, the Jack Kerouac House Writer-In-Residence in Orlando, FL, and a Guild Hall Artist-In-Residence in East Hampton, NY.
Caitlin has taught literature and writing as the Writer-In-Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, the Emerging Writer-In-Residence at Penn State Altoona, a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University, an Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, and the Writer-In-Residence at St. Albans School. She earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Thomas Wolfe Scholar in Creative Writing, an MFA from Boston University as the George Starbuck Poetry Fellow, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she served as Associate Editor of The Cincinnati Review. At present, she teaches in the LEDA Scholars Program (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America), and the Genesis Education Language Arts Mentorship Program.
Caitlin has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the University of Cincinnati Excellence in Teaching Award, the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, and a William C. Boyce Teaching Award. As a librettist, Caitlin was commissioned by Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne to write lyrics for Silent Voices, a concert that premiered at the National Sawdust Theater featuring the acclaimed Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Of recent note, Caitlin served on the Poetry Advisory Committee for the Illinois Arts Council Agency’s Artist Fellowship Program, and acted as the judge for the San Antonio Writers’ Guild Poetry Contest. She currently serves as Interviews Editor at Literary Matters, and she is working toward the completion of her debut poetry collection.
