Catherine Staples grew up in Dover, Massachusetts and still spends part of each summer on Cape Cod. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Third Coast, Valparaiso, Commonweal, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and others. Honors include the University of Pennsylvania's William Carlos Williams Award, The New England Poetry Club’s Boyle/ Farber Award, and the Southern Poetry Review's 2011 Guy Owen Prize. Betsy Sholl selected her chapbook Never a Note Forfeit for the 2010 Keystone Chapbook Prize.
Catherine's first full length collection, The Rattling Window,
nominated by Eamon Grennan for the Robert McGovern Series, is
due out from
Ashland Poetry Press in
March 2013 (in time for Boston's AWP conference). She
teaches in the Honors program at Villanova University and lives in Devon, PA
with her husband and children.