Katie Condon
is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize (OSU / MAD CREEK BOOKS 2020). Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, as well as the Academy of American Poets’ anthology 100 Poems That Matter. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the 2023 Nadya Aisenberg fellowship from MacDowell, and served as the Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University from 2019 - 2020.
Condon holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, and a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee. She is an assistant professor in the English department at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches creative writing and edits a line of poetry for Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press.
Condon is a poet who looks you in the eye as she sings.
- Joy Harjo, former U.S. Poet Laureate