Kerouac’s Junk Mail, Merrill’s Ouija Board: Living with Literary Ghosts
Caitlin Doyle reconciles lessons from two residences at the homes of two drastically different writers...
Caitlin Doyle’s poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Measure, and others. Her poems have also been published in various anthologies, including The Best Emerging Poets of 2013, The Southern Poetry Anthology, and Best New Poets 2009. She has held Writer-In-Residence teaching posts at Penn State, St. Albans School, and Interlochen Arts Academy. Caitlin’s awards and fellowships include Writer-In-Residence positions at the James Merrill House and the Jack Kerouac House, fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony, the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship through the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Amy Award in Poetry through Poets & Writers. She is currently pursuing her PhD as an Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.