
Corbett Bresner, neé Catherine, is a nonbinary poet living in Western MA. They are the author of the chapbooks The Merriam Webster Series (2012) and Some Break A / Others Say Do (Press Brake, 2025), and the full-length poetry collections Can We Anything We See (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025), the empty season (Diode Editions, 2018), and the artist book Everyday Eros (Mount Analogue, 2017). Their poetry has appeared in FENCE, the Volta, VOLT, b l u s h, Denver Quarterly, the Pinch, Sixth Finch, Fonograf, Iterant, The Offing, Paperbag and elsewhere. They’ve been the publicist for Wave Books and a managing editor at Kirkus Reviews. She co-edits Spirit Duplicator, an occasional mimeograph magazine of poetry and art, with the poet Adam Tobin. They believe in a free Palestine.
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