About Cait Weiss Orcutt:
Dr. Cait Weiss Orcutt’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Chautauqua, FIELD, and others. Her poems have 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 a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. While at UH, Cait coordinated a national conference for creative writers and served as the adviser to Glass Mountain literary magazine.
Cait has focused her career on sparking creative in others, specifically in those outside of the university setting: healthcare workers, senior citizens, lawyers, accountants, visual artists and other young and established professionals. She has taught and lectured at University of Houston, the Ohio State University, Grackle and Grackle, NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Houston Flood Museum, the Jewish Community Center, Inprint, the Menil Collection, the Salvation Army, and Writers in the Schools, among several other sites in Houston, Columbus, and New York City.
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, and has served as a reader for several poetry and prose prizes.
Cait has focused her career on sparking creative in others, specifically in those outside of the university setting: healthcare workers, senior citizens, lawyers, accountants, visual artists and other young and established professionals. She has taught and lectured at University of Houston, the Ohio State University, Grackle and Grackle, NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Houston Flood Museum, the Jewish Community Center, Inprint, the Menil Collection, the Salvation Army, and Writers in the Schools, among several other sites in Houston, Columbus, and New York City.
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, and has served as a reader for several poetry and prose prizes.
