Education
Brown University; University of California, Berkeley.
Brown University; University of California, Berkeley.
Farris is the author of BOYSGIRLS, (Marick Press, 2011), a hybrid form text, which has been lauded as “truly innovative” (Prague Post ), “a tour de force” (Robert Coover ), and “a book with gigantic scope. At some points it reads like the book of Genesis. At others, like a dream-turned-nightmare.
From the opening lines the author grabs you by the throat.” (Louisville Courier-Journal ).
She is also the co-translator of Polina Barskova"s "This Lamentable City" (Tupelo Press, 2010) and Guy Jean"s "If I Were Born in Prague" (Argos s, 2011). Her other fiction, translations, and poetry have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Western Humanities Review, The Literary Review, Verse, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Washington Square, Hayden"s Ferry Review, The Brooklyn Rail and other journals.
Her translations have also been widely anthologized in texts such as New European Poets (Graywolf Press) and Penguin of Classical Russian Poetry (Penguin). With Ilya Kaminsky and Valzhyna Mort, Farris has co-edited "Gossip and Metaphysics: Prose by Russian Modernist Poets" which is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2015.
Review: Mary McMyne on BOYSGIRLS in "American Review" Review: Micah McCrary on BOYSGIRLS in "slut" Review: Mary Popham on BOYSGIRLS in "Louisville Courier-Journal" Review: Robert Lipton on BOYSGIRLS in "Poetry Flash" Review: Deborah Lechner on BOYSGIRLS in "Hayden"s Ferry Review" Review: Stephan Delbos on BOYSGIRLS in "Prague Post" Review: Val B. Russell on BOYSGIRLS in "Her Circle" Review: Ivy Page on BOYSGIRLS in "Midwest Review" Review: Dana Jennings on "This Lamentable City" in The New York Times Interview with Katie Farris in Women"s Quarterly Conversation Interview with Katie Farris in California Journal of Poetics.
She is also the member of the Core Faculty at New England College"s Low Residency Master of Fine Arts Program.