Katherine Zadravec

Zadravec is the author of three books of poems: : Imitations (1988), How to Travel (1987), and Shewski’s Ladder (chapbook, 1980). She was an administrator for the PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction, organizer of a major conference and exhibition on Emily Dickinson at the Folger Shakespeare Library, host of the Mid-Day Muse reading series, founder of the Emily Dickinson Society, and a columnist for The Washington Post for 30 years. In addition, she taught at Trinity College, and founded the Writer’s Week at Manhattanville College. She and her husband Martin Zadravec raised six children. She died of cancer at age 56.