Kathy Fagan's new poetry collection is The Unbecoming, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Autumn 2026. Her sixth book, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. 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 Paris Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Series, the Vassar Miller Prize, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, she is the recipient of NEA, Ingram Merrill, Greater Columbus Arts Council, and Ohio Arts Council grants, in addition to Frost Place and MacDowell residencies. Fagan co-founded the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, for which she served two terms as Director and over twenty years as Poetry Editor of The Journal and its annual poetry book prize for OSU Press.