Born in Detroit, the daughter of a school teacher and a newspaper reporter, Catherine Anderson has published four full-length collections of poetry as well as numerous essays. Her latest work is a memoir (2022), centered on life with her brother who had intellectual disabilities, My Brother Speaks in Dreams: Of Family, Beauty & Belonging. Her work has been noted in The Georgia Review, The Boston Globe, and The Kansas City Star. For years she lived in Boston where she edited a community newspaper centered on the lives of Asian Americans and worked as a staff writer for area nonprofits. She now lives in Kansas City where she works with new interpreters from the city’s immigrant communities.