Catherine Carter, an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, won the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest for her collection of poetry entitled Marks of the Witch. The book was published by Jacar Press, an independent publisher based in Durham, North Carolina.
Earlier collections of poems were The Swamp Monster at Home (Louisiana State University Press, 2012) and The Memory of Gills (Louisiana State University Press, 2006).
Dr. Carter is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Delaware.