Catherine Strisik, award-winning poet, teacher, editor, is author of Goat, Goddess, Moon ( Holy Cow! Press, September 2025); Insectum Gravitis (Main Street Rag, 2019; finalist New Mexico/AZ Book Award in Poetry 2020); The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016; awarded New Mexico/AZ Book Award for Poetry 2017); Thousand-Cricket Song (Plain View Press 2010, 2nd edition 2016); manuscript: Dear Unholy: (finalist: Two Sylvia’s Press & Elixir Press); was Taos, New Mexico’s Poet Laureate 2020-2021; recipient of Taoseña Award as Woman of Impact based on literary contribution in northern New Mexico; co-founder and editor of Taos Journal of Poetry, on advisory board of Pocket Samovar, is a Pushcart nominee, and has over 35 years of publications with poetry translated into Greek, Persian, and Bulgarian.
Strisik’s poems appear in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Poet Lore, Drunken Boat, Ergon, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Kaleidoscope, Puerto del Sol, Tusculum Review, The Maynard, and elsewhere. She’s received grants, honors and prizes from CutThroat, Peregrine, and Comstock Review, The Southwest Literary Center, The Puffin Foundation, as well as residencies at Lakkos Artists, Crete, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, Truchas Peaks Place amongst others. Strisik currently divides her time between northern New Mexico and Cape Ann, MA.
Catherine offers editorial services, private consultations, and small group poetry workshops.
Please contact: catherinestrisik@gmail.com
Strisik’s poems appear in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Poet Lore, Drunken Boat, Ergon, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Kaleidoscope, Puerto del Sol, Tusculum Review, The Maynard, and elsewhere. She’s received grants, honors and prizes from CutThroat, Peregrine, and Comstock Review, The Southwest Literary Center, The Puffin Foundation, as well as residencies at Lakkos Artists, Crete, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, Truchas Peaks Place amongst others. Strisik currently divides her time between northern New Mexico and Cape Ann, MA.
Catherine offers editorial services, private consultations, and small group poetry workshops.
Please contact: catherinestrisik@gmail.com
testimonials
“Catherine Strisik’s “Courage in Poetry” workshop was fierce and focused. Catherine challenged us to get edgy and uncomfortable; to venture into scary places; and to write our hearts out. The result? My writing and I went in directions we’d never gone before. I thank her for her insight and inspiration.”
-Maria Garcia
Courage in Poetry was my first-ever poetry workshop. Catherine’s focused, insightful attention to my first attempts at this form, new to me, was a true education — drawing forth from this student what I didn’t even know I was capable of. With great care and compassion, she created a safe and encouraging learning environment that opened all of us to be brave and bold and daring.
- Eileen Wiard
“Poetry can be a mysterious creature. As a sensuous poet, Cathy Strisik knows well how to invite verse out into vulnerable openings—sun filled clearings of meadows and streams. As a gifted teacher, she shares wisdom on the way to poetry’s dwelling place. I study—a lot—with many poets. Cathy is among the best. I will continue to study with her every chance I can.”
-Kate O’Neil
“Cathy Strisik’s poetry workshops are sheer pleasure! She has an amazing ability to bring out the best in us, to see the strengths in what we write, and to guide us toward more “poetic” expression. I loved the entire experience.”
-Margery Reading
-Maria Garcia
Courage in Poetry was my first-ever poetry workshop. Catherine’s focused, insightful attention to my first attempts at this form, new to me, was a true education — drawing forth from this student what I didn’t even know I was capable of. With great care and compassion, she created a safe and encouraging learning environment that opened all of us to be brave and bold and daring.
- Eileen Wiard
“Poetry can be a mysterious creature. As a sensuous poet, Cathy Strisik knows well how to invite verse out into vulnerable openings—sun filled clearings of meadows and streams. As a gifted teacher, she shares wisdom on the way to poetry’s dwelling place. I study—a lot—with many poets. Cathy is among the best. I will continue to study with her every chance I can.”
-Kate O’Neil
“Cathy Strisik’s poetry workshops are sheer pleasure! She has an amazing ability to bring out the best in us, to see the strengths in what we write, and to guide us toward more “poetic” expression. I loved the entire experience.”
-Margery Reading
