Catherine Chandler

Catherine Chandler (b. 1950) was born in New York City and grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She completed her graduate studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where, prior to her retirement, she lectured in Spanish in the Department of Translation Studies and also held the position of International Affairs Officer.

Her first full-length collection, "Lines of Flight" (Able Muse Press, 2011) was shortlisted for the 2013 Poets' Prize. In 2010 she won the prestigious Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Her book, "This Sweet Order", a collection of twenty-seven sonnets, was published in 2012 by White Violet Press. A second full-length collection, "Glad and Sorry Seasons", was published by Biblioasis Press in March 2014, and her third collection, "The Frangible Hour", winner of the 2016 Richard Wilbur Award, is now available on Amazon.com.

Chandler's poetry, translations, reviews, essays and podcasts have been widely published throughout the English-speaking world in print journals, anthologies and online sites, most recently in Quadrant, Measure, Orbis, First Things, The Alabama Literary Review, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Lewis Turco), and The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Theresa M. Welford).

She currently lives in Saint-Lazare, Quebec and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Catherine Chandler's poetry blog, The Wonderful Boat, welcomes all aboard at:

http://cathychandler.blogspot.com