Catina Bacote
Assistant Professor
The University of Iowa, M.F.A.
Teachers College, Columbia University, M.A.
Wesleyan University, B.A.
Research focus: Literary nonfiction
Catina Bacote’s nonfiction has been published in Ploughshares, Tin House, the Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, The Common, The Sun, Southern California Review, and the anthology This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017). She has been a Writer-in-Residence at the MacDowell Colony where she received the Ann Cox Chambers Long-form Journalism Fellowship, the Ragdale Foundation where she received the Alice Judson Hayes Social Justice Fellowship, Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Millay Colony, Willapa Bay, and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. Her research and writing considers the lasting impact of racism, segregation, and economic oppression on families and communities. Currently, she is at work on a book that draws on personal and social history to explore the consequences of the illegal drug trade. She has taught creative writing and contemporary literature at The University of Iowa and Warren Wilson College, before coming to St. John’s University.