Katherine Indermaur is a writer, poet, and magazine editor. In 2008, she was appointed as the first North Carolina Student Poet Laureate by Kathryn Stripling Byer. She authored the 2018 chapbook PULSE, the 2021 chapbook Facing the Mirror: An Essay, and the 2022 poetry book I/I. She is a recipient of the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2019 Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize, and 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Indermaur was a runner-up in 92nd Street Y's Discovery Poetry Contest in 2020. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Colorado Book Award for poetry. Indermaur is an editor at Sugar House Review and previously served as managing editor at Colorado Review and as an assistant editor at Alpinist.
Education
Indermaur attended John W. Ligon Magnet Middle School and William G. Enloe Magnet High School, graduating in 2008. Later that year she was appointed as the first North Carolina Student Poet Laureate by Kathryn Stripling Byer, the North Carolina Poet Laureate, receiving the Laureate award for her poem Downtown After Dark. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying English and creative writing. She earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Colorado State University.
Career
Indermaur works as an editor at Sugar House Review, a literary magazine based in Salt Lake City. She had previously worked as the managing editor for the Colorado Review in Fort Collins. She also served as a temporary assistant editor at Alpinist.
In 2018 Indermaur released PULSE, a micro-chapbook published through Ghost City Press.
In 2019 she was a finalist in GASHER Journal'''s First-Book Scholarship for her work Girl Descends Asunder. Indermaur was the winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2018 and the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest in 2019. In 2020 she was a runner-up in 92nd Street Y's Discovery Poetry Contest.
In November 2022, Indermaur authored the poetry book I|I'', published by Seneca Review Books. She was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize.
On June 10, 2023, Indermaur received the Colorado Book Award for poetry during the awards ceremony at the Pen Rose Estate in Colorado Springs.
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