Kate O'Donoghue

 

Kate O’Donoghue is a writer from Long Island. She earned her MFA from Purdue University, where she now teaches for the Creative Writing program. Along with Introduction to Creative Writing, Kate has taught courses like Craft of Poetry, Poetry and Visual Art, and a graduate-level course on Poetry and Comics. Her own poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a poet and teacher, Kate is freelance comics critic.​ Her wide-ranging comics criticism is published in venues like The Comics Courier, The Gutter Review, ScreenRant, AIPT, Popverse, and Shelfdust. She is also an administrator for Poets House in New York City. Kate is proud to be a first-generation American and a first-generation college graduate; she earned her BA at Muhlenberg College, where she also served for two years as the Assistant Director of the Writing Center. Kate is a former fellow of the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, a former poetry and web editor for Sycamore Review, a former intern for Copper Canyon Press, a former Assistant Poetry Editor for The Nation, and a former comics editor for ScreenRant.