Catherine Rankovic

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Pacific, MO
Missouri US
Email: 
clrankov@gmail.com
Website: 
aureliaplath.info
Twitter/X: 
@rankovic
RSS feed: 
aureliaplath.blogspot.com

Author's Bio

M.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis. After 31 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate university courses I am a full-time researcher and writer and well-established Sylvia Plath scholar. Author of the poetry volumes Fierce Consent (2005) and Hide and Sex (2015); author nonfiction works Island Universe: Essays and Entertainments (2007), Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (2010), and, under pseudonym, Sun Sign Confidential (2015), and Tetrabiblos for the 21st Century (2023).

Education: 
Washington University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Ragdale

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (PenUltimate Press, 2010)

Poetry

Book:
Fierce Consent (Wingspan Press, 2005)
Journals:
Boulevard
,
december
,
Gulf Coast
,
Midwestern Gothic
,
Natural Bridge
,
River Styx
Prizes won: 

2020, Wednesday Club Poetry Contest; 2010, First Place, James H. Nash contest, St. Louis Poetry Center; 2009: First Place, Midwest Center for the Arts Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest; third place, James H. Nash contest, St. Louis Poetry Center; 2009, 2006: selected in Arts in Transit competition; 1994: $5,000 prize for creative nonfiction in Missouri Biennial competition; 1990-91: Washington University Teaching Fellowship in Poetry; 1987: Academy of American Poets Award

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy, Galway Kinnell
What I'm reading now: 
Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White, Mothers of the Mind: Woolf, Christie, Plath by Rachel Trethewey, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham, The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox, The Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
No
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Racine, WI
Wisconsin
Raised in: 
WI
Wisconsin
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Last update: Dec 29, 2023