Catherine Faurot
Writer
I live and write on a beautiful farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, in the homelands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and on traditional Seneca land. While pursuing my degree in religion from U.C. Berkeley, I read books from all over the world and from many different cultures. I studied goddess worship and environmental ethics (for real), as part of a search for ways to live that don’t involve domination over women or nature. Mysticism, spirituality, and nature are at the core of who I am and why I write.
I hold two master’s degrees in writing, one from Dartmouth and one from Bennington.
Recently I began to find incredible new answers to this lifelong search through connections to Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women, who carry a living tradition of reverence for both women and our mother the earth. My personal lineage is mostly Scottish with some mixed French and Oneida/Mohawk ancestry, and I am fascinated by both Celtic and Haudenosaunee cultures. I am a committed ally to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people.
In between work and writing projects, I homestead with my family among black walnut and catalpa and maple trees. I spend lots of time in our many gardens and with our sheep, one sassy goat and an even sassier donkey, a Haflinger horse, a lot of chickens, two kitties, and my amazing dog Red.
Catherine Faurot’s second poetry book, Theology of the Broken, was published in November 2023 by Continental Sales. Her first poetry book, Plow Harrow Seed, was published in 2006 by FootHills Publishing. She holds an MFA degree at Bennington College and an interdisciplinary MA from Dartmouth in classics and creative writing. Her poems have been published in The Colorado Review, Free State Review, The Christian Century, The New Orphic Review, Westchester Review and Classical Outlook, among other publications. Previously Ms. Faurot taught creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She currently works as Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at the University of Rochester.
