Katie Berta is the author of retribution forthcoming (Ohio University Press), which won the Hollis Summers Prize and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Ohio Book Award in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Pleiades, and Southeast Review, among other magazines. She has received residencies from Millay Arts, Ragdale, and the Hambidge Center, fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and an Iowa Review Award. She's previously taught at Arizona State, Ohio University, the University of Iowa, and Oberlin College and has served as an editor at Hayden's Ferry Review and The Iowa Review.