Cate Marvin earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before completing a PhD in English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati. Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster earned the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Guggenheim Fellow and co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, Marvin is Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and also teaches poetry in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. She lives in Scarborough, Maine.