CATHRYN COFELL 

About

Poeting

• Winner of the 2019 Main Stree Rag Poetry Book Award for "Stick Figure with Skirt"

• Author of Sister Satellite and six chapbooks of poetry

• 300+ published poems, essays and book reviews

• Winner of  the Mill Prize for Poetry, the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize, the WI Academy Poetry Award (Wisconsin People & Ideas) and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, among others

• Performer with Obvious Dog (Bruce Dethlefsen & Bill Orth), most often music and poems from Lip

• Fixture (in concrete) in Appleton's city sidewalks

Advocating

• Recipient of the Christopher Latham Sholes Award from the Council for WI Writers

• Poetry Unlocked Event Coordinator and PR maven

• Founder of the WI Poet Laureate Commission and the WI Poet Laureate Fund

• Two-time former Chair of the WI Poet Laureate Commission

• Former VP Letters for the WI Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters

• Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP), Co-VP Central Fox Valley Region, founder of the Chapbook Prize  

• Former advisory Board of Verse Wisconsin and member of the Foot of the Lake Poetry Collective.

Speaking, Teaching...​

• Keynote speaker at multiple events with upwards of 1000 attendees, including the Women’s Fund of the Fox Valley Annual Luncheon, WI Book Festival, U.S. Venture Open, UW-Whitewater Creative Writing Festival and various high school career day programs.

• Panelist and presenter at numerous venues including the WI Book Festival, Chippewa Valley Book Fest, Carroll University, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Festival, Marian University, Ripon College, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Marathon and UW-Whitewater.

• Experienced workshop instructor, reader/presenter, commercial voice-over artist.

• A license to officiate!