Printable view of Catherine Rankovic

Listed as:

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Pacific, MO

Missouri US

Email:

clrankov@gmail.com

Bio:

M.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis. After 31 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate university courses I am a full-time researcher and writer and well-established Sylvia Plath scholar. Author of the poetry volumes Fierce Consent (2005) and Hide and Sex (2015); author nonfiction works Island Universe: Essays and Entertainments (2007), Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (2010), and, under pseudonym, Sun Sign Confidential (2015), and a translation of Tetrabiblos for the 21st Century (2023).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy, Galway Kinnell

Twitter/X:

@rankovic

Born in:

Racine, WI

Wisconsin

Raised in:

WI

Wisconsin

RSS feed:

https://aureliaplath.blogspot.com [2]

Website:

https://aureliaplath.info [3]

Prizes won:

2020, Wednesday Club Poetry Contest; 2010, First Place, James H. Nash contest, St. Louis Poetry Center; 2009: First Place, Midwest Center for the Arts Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest; third place, James H. Nash contest, St. Louis Poetry Center; 2009, 2006: selected in Arts in Transit competition; 1994: $5,000 prize for creative nonfiction in Missouri Biennial competition; 1990-91: Washington University Teaching Fellowship in Poetry; 1987: Academy of American Poets Award

Education:

Washington University

What I'm reading now:

Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White

Mothers of the Mind: Woolf, Christie, Plath by Rachel Trethewey

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox

The Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate

Writers Retreats:

Ragdale

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Adults