Cati Porter - Bio

Cati Porter is founding editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. She is the author of Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), and the chapbooks small fruit songs: prose poems (Pudding House Publications, 2008), (al)most delicious, an ekphrastic series after Modigliani's nudes (forthcoming in 2010 from Dancing Girl Press), and what Desire makes of us, a series written during NaPoWriMo 2009 (forthcoming from Ahadada books as an e-book with illustrations by her sister, Amy Joy Payne). Her full-length manuscript-in-progress is tentatively titled My Skies of Small Horses. Her poems have been anthologized in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor (No Tell Books), Letters to the World: Poems from the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen Press), and White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press/York University, Canada), and appear widely online and in print. Cati Porter lives in Riverside, California, with her husband and two young sons. Learn more about her by visiting her website.