Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series; the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue 2017); and the empty season, which won the Diode Edition Book Prize in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in The Offing, Heavy Feather Review, Gulf Coast, Sixth Finch, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Juniper Summer Institute fellowship and a residency through the Northwest Film Forum. Currently, she is the publicist for Wave Books and lives in Seattle, WA.