Kate Durbin

Kate Durbin (she/her) is a poet and artist. She is the author of the poetry collections Hoarders (Wave Books, 2021), E! Entertainment (Wonder, 2014), and The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat/Akashic, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks. 

With Amaranth Borsuk, she authored the “living text” ABRA. This transmedia project resulted in a mobile app created with Ian Hatcher, an artist's book, and a trade paperback published by 1913 Press. The project received an NEA-funded Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College, Chicago.

Durbin has exhibited her art at TRANSFER Gallery in Brooklyn and has performed at the PULSE Art Fair, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Hammer, among other places. In 2015 and in 2020, she was Arts Queensland poet-in-residence. 

Durbin was founding editor of the blog Gaga Stigmata, a forum for critical creative work on Lady Gaga. Durbin lives in Los Angeles.