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Caitlin Doyle is a poet, an essayist, and a librettist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Irish Times, the Yale Review, Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press, 2009), the Threepenny Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Best Emerging Poets of 2013 (Sulivan & Stokes, An Imprint of Stay Thirsty Publishing, 2014), Boston Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been featured in Poetry Daily, American Life in Poetry, the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, and the Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day

Doyle has received awards, scholarships, and fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Amy Award Series through Poets & Writers, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets, and others. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize special mention, Doyle has served as the James Merrill House writer-in-residence, the Jack Kerouac House writer-in-residence, and a Guild Hall artist-in-residence in East Hampton, New York. 

She has taught writing and literature at St. Albans School, Boston University, Penn State Altoona, the University of Cincinnati, and Washington & Jefferson College. Doyle has served as associate editor of The Cincinnati Review and interviews editor at Literary Matters. She is currently a faculty member for the Frost Farm Poetry Conference.

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