About
Katy Gurin earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Humboldt State University in 2011 and an MFA in poetry from UC Riverside in 2019. Her awards include the Dean's Distinguished Fellowship from UC Riverside, the Community of Writers fellowship from UC Riverside, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. Katy's poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Blue Earth Review, Sinking City, SOVO//, and elsewhere. She is Associate Editor of the winter/spring 2022 issue of About Place.
Katy has worked as an engineer on projects throughout California, including the restoration of Wishon Quarry, the decommissioning of the Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant, and the removal of San Clemente Dam. She co-founded the climate activist groups 350 Humboldt and 350 Riverside. She lives in Eureka, CA and works as a senior analyst on the Humboldt Regional Climate Action Plan.
Galore
Galore is a book-length collection of poems informed by the author's experiences as an environmental engineer and climate activist. Galore establishes the history of life on earth— particularly life's aquatic origins— as a source of meaning and connection. Galore's speaker cycles through wonder, solastalgia, and determination as she arrives at an understanding of climate as central to the story of life.
"(...)before that day,
I thought extinct life was defective. I thought
my ancestors—metaspriggina, tiktaalik—
were incomplete. I couldn't imagine how easy it is to lose a world."— "Fire Season 2020"
The author is currently seeking publication for this debut collection.
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