Kathryn Levy is the author of the poetry collections, Reports (New Rivers Press, 2013), a finalist for the Midwest Book Award, and Losing the Moon (Canio’s Editions, 2006), as well as The Nutcracker Teacher Resource Guide (NYCB Education Department, 1996), a guide to K-12 poetry instruction. Her work has appeared in many journals including Slate, The Progressive, Cimarron Review, Minnesota Review, Provincetown Arts, Seattle Review, and Hanging Loose, among others, as well as the anthologies We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, The Light of City and Sea, Adventures in the Spirit, and the Japanese anthology 36 New York Poets. She was a co-editor and contributor for the group poem “Ceasefire Cento” (Vox Populi), with contributions from eighty-three writers across the world.
Levy has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Moulin a Nef, Vermont Studio Center, and Cummington Community of the Arts. She has received a Special Mention from the Pushcart Prize, an Honorable Mention from the Homebound Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for the Press 53 Poetry Contest and semi-finalist for the Washington Prize. She was founding director of The Poetry Exchange and the New York City Ballet Poetry Project, two poets-in-the-schools organizations targeting underserved students in the New York City public schools. For decades she has worked as a teaching artist and arts education consultant, particularly focused on writing programs for “at-risk” populations. She is a contributing editor for Vox Populi.