Katie Condon Hermes

Katie Condon Hermes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches creative writing and edits poetry for Project Poëtica/Bridwell Press. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee (2020) and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston (2015). Her debut poetry collection Praying Naked (2020) won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize, and her work appears in New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and American Poetry Review.

Research interests focus on lyric poetry's intersection with confessional traditions, apostrophic forms, and spiritual inquiry. Her poetry explores themes of embodiment, gender identity, and existential inquiry through visceral imagery and innovative syntax.

• Education: PhD English (UT Knoxville), MFA Poetry (UH)
• Awards: NEA Fellowship (2025), MacDowell Fellowship (2023)

Publications include over 20 poems in top journals and critical work in Grist Journal. She previously served as Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University (2019-2021).