Catherine Pond was born in New York City. She is the author of Fieldglass (Southern Illinois University Press 2021), winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Best American Nonrequired Reading, AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Narrative, and other publications. She is a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2013. Pond lives in San Francisco.