Katherine Larson is the author of Radial Symmetry (2011), selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and published by Yale University Press. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and Poetry Northwest, among other places. Larson is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In addition to writing, she has worked as a molecular biologist and field ecologist.  

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