Kathryn Levy

Kathryn Levy is the author of the poetry collections, Losing the Moon (Canio’s Editions, 2006) and Reports (New Rivers Press, 2013), as well as The Nutcracker Teacher Resource Guide (New York City Ballet Education Department, 1996), a guide to poetry instruction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals including Slate, Cimarron Review, Provincetown Arts, The Seattle Review, The Minnesota Review, The Southampton Review, Dahse Magazine, Manhattan Poetry Review, Blink, and Lo Straniero, as well as the anthologies The Light of City and Sea (Street Press, 2006), We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (Interlink Press, 2007), and Adventures in the Spirit (Ohio State University Press, 2007). In 2013, a musical setting of her poetry, Only Air, was premiered by the Illinois State University Orchestra. Levy has received numerous writing fellowships, including awards from Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Cummington. Her many readings include appearances at the Harvard Club of Boston, KGB, Middlebury College, and The Bowery Poetry Club. Levy was founding director of The Poetry Exchange and the New York City Ballet Poetry Project, two poets-in-the-schools organizations. She has conducted courses in poetry, film, theater, and arts education for numerous schools and cultural institutions. She divides her time between Sag Harbor, NY and New York City.