Katie Condon

Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize (The Ohio State University Press / Mad Creek Books, 2020). Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, as well as the 2025 Best American Poetry Anthology and 100 Poems that Matter, an Academy of American Poets anthology. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and serves as the poetry editor for a book series with Project Poëtica | Bridwell Press.

Area of Expertise

• Poetry and Poetics
• Creative Writing

Areas of Interest

• Lyric Poetry
• Confessional Poetry
• Lyric Address & Apostrophe

Selected Publications

from The Second Coming (manuscript-in-progress)

The New Yorker — “This House”
Poetry Magazine — “The Holy Sacrament of Repression”
Academy of American Poets — “The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby’s Delivery Will Cost”
The Oxford American — “After My Son Tells Me His Favorite Color Is Pink”
Poetry Northwest — “Called Back”
West Branch — “Who Here Has Heard of Ether?” + “The Baby Laughs”
New Ohio Review — “A Covered Dish” + other poems

from Praying Naked

The New Yorker — “Origin”
Four Way Review — “I Am a Kick-Ass Woman”
Narrative Magazine — “Praying Naked” + other poems
Blunderbuss — “How to Know the Wildflowers” + other poems