Dear Beast

Catherine Pierce is the author of the poetry collections Danger Days, The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words, as well as the memoir Foxes for Everybody. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and has won two Pushcart Prizes. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, she served as Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2021 to 2025.