About Cait Weiss Orcutt:
Cait Weiss Orcutt’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Chautauqua, FIELD, and others. Her poems been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart and Best New Poets and her manuscript VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3, 2017) won Zone 3 Press’ 2016 First Book Award, judged by Douglas Kearney. Cait has an MFA from The Ohio State and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Poetry at the University of Houston while advising the undergraduate literary journal, Glass Mountain. Alongside her studies, she consults on manuscripts for Tell Tell Poetry and teaches creative writing at University of Houston, Grackle and Grackle, the Houston Flood Museum, the Jewish Community Center, Inprint, the Menil Collection, the Salvation Army, and Writers in the Schools.
Before pursuing writing full-time, Cait owned a company providing social media marketing strategy, branding and public relations support to national companies, corporate P.R. and boutique P.R. firms and has produced content for mainstream and alternative media companies internationally and locally. For the full rundown: www.linkedin.com/in/caitvweiss.
Cait has written cultural commentary, travel profiles and theater reviews for a variety of publications including Metromix, the L Magazine, Brooklyn the Borough, and Candace Bushnell's serial newsletter, "Worse Things." Cait recently served as the online editor for The Journal and Poetry Line Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Before pursuing writing full-time, Cait owned a company providing social media marketing strategy, branding and public relations support to national companies, corporate P.R. and boutique P.R. firms and has produced content for mainstream and alternative media companies internationally and locally. For the full rundown: www.linkedin.com/in/caitvweiss.
Cait has written cultural commentary, travel profiles and theater reviews for a variety of publications including Metromix, the L Magazine, Brooklyn the Borough, and Candace Bushnell's serial newsletter, "Worse Things." Cait recently served as the online editor for The Journal and Poetry Line Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
