Kathy Fagan's new book is The Unbecoming (W. W. Norton, September 2026). Preorder now from your favorite bookseller. Her sixth book, Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), won the 2023 William Carlos Williams Award. Her fifth book, Sycamore (Milkweed Editions, 2017), was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award.

A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill fellowship, residencies at The Frost Place, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and was named Ohio Poet of the Year for 2017.

Fagan's work has appeared in venues such as The Atlantic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Poetry. She co-founded the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where she taught poetry and co-edited The Journal and the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for OSU Press.