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Kateri Lanthier

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Kateri Lanthier is a Canadian writer who has published two collections of poetry. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1962. As a child, she lived in St. Catharines, Sudbury and Kingston. She attended Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute and North Toronto Collegiate Institute. She holds a B.A. (Hons, 1984) and M.A. (1986) in English Literature from the University of Toronto. As an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, she contributed articles to The Varsity and The Newspaper and had poems published in the U.C. Review, Acta Victoriana, and Scat! (Innis College).

Kateri married Gregory J. Sinclair, producer and director, in 1994. They have three children: Nicholas (b. 2002), Julia (b. 2006) and William (b. 2008).

Writing Career and Publication History

Kateri Lanthier has published free verse, ghazals, haiku, sonnets, rhyming quatrains, and couplets. Her work deals with love and associated conflicts and pleasures, eco-anxiety, the inventive ways in which children acquire language, and the pressures and speed of contemporary culture. Her work is highly allusive, bringing in references to the literary canon while subverting them with a feminist bent.

Kateri’s first published poem appeared in the literary journal Quarry when she was 13. She went on to publish several more times in Quarry while still in high school. When she was 17, her work (seven poems and an interview) was featured in Poetry Canada Review. Kateri also served on the editorial board of the literary magazine Descant> in the early 1990s.

After working as an editor in educational book publishing, Kateri began working as a freelance writer specializing in design. Her feature articles have appeared in many design and décor magazines, including Canadian House & Home, Style at Home, Home and Country, Canadian Interiors and [1] Food & Drink magazine, as well as in The Financial Post and The National Post. She also wrote scripts for Season 5 of "Design for Living" with Kimberley Seldon on HGTV in 2002.

Her first collection of poetry, Reporting from Night, was published by Iguana Books in 2011. Her second collection, Siren, came out with Signal Editions, Vehicule Press in 2017.

In addition to her books, Kateri Lanthier’s poems have been published in numerous journals over several decades, notably in London Magazine (ed. Alan Ross), Saturday Night, Descant and Matrix.

Since 2011 Kateri's poems have appeared in The Walrus, Hazlitt, EVENT, The Fiddlehead, Great Lakes Review, Green Mountains Review, Leveler, Arc, PoetrySky), and Matrix. Four haiku appeared in Literary Review of Canada in November 2016.. Her poetry reviews have appeared in The Rusty Toque

Kateri Lanthier delivered a TEDx talk on poetry at TEDx Ashbury College in November 2016 .

Kateri taught a full-year course in Creative Writing to undergraduates in the English and Drama department of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) in 2015-16. She wrote about the experience for the Malahat Review.

In 2017, Kateri became a Mentor in the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.

Kateri is a full member of The League of Canadian Poets.

Awards

Kateri received an Ontario Arts Council Works in Progress grant in 1991 to assist with the completion of the manuscript of her first book. Her poem “The Coin Under the Leftmost Sliding Cup” won the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize ($2,500). The judges that year were Ken Babstock and Katia Grubisic. Her poem “Reluctant, Reluctant” was shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year and was an Editor’s Choice in that contest.

Her poem “To the Headless Long-Stemmed Rose on a Staircase in the Subway” won third prize (£500) in the 2016 Troubadour International Poetry Prize, based in London. The judges that year were Glyn Maxwell and Jane Yeh. Kateri was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts travel grant to attend the Troubadour prize reading event in London, England on Oct. 31, 2016.

Citations, Critical Reception

A long-form interview between Kateri Lanthier and the American poet Dan Chelotti regarding their first books appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review in 2014.

On December 8, 2013, Kateri was interviewed about winning the Walrus Poetry Prize by the Town Crier newspaper in Toronto .

She was also interviewed about her work by Beach Metro News.

As part of its 40th anniversary celebration, Brick Books published an appreciation of Kateri's work by Russian-American poet and translator Alex Cigale in July 2015. Citing her musicality and patient craft, Cigale noted:

There is so much sonic energy here, and the other tools Pound spoke of, phanopoeia and logopoeia, image and wit. Moreover, what I admire in her work, desiring so much to fulfill it in my own, is a quirky playfulness that is yet not divorced of sense. She is one of a growing handful of the younger generation of poets now coming into their own. I truly look forward to seeing what Kateri does next.

A profile of Kateri, along with a photo, is featured in Bruce Meyer’s book Portraits of Canadian Writers (Porcupine’s Quill, 2016).

Of Kateri Lanthier’s poems, the Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand wrote: “Their intensity and limpidity, their invention – all wonderful. And their narrative arc – always implicit – gives them a lovely delicacy.”