Biography

Kate Fagan

by Joey Jordan,

Kate Fagan is a poet, musician and an academic of Australian nationality. She has been known to have published several publications on books like The Salt Companion to John Tranter and on journals like Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and on several other publications. She was born on 3rd December 1973. She was born to parents Kathy Fagan and Chris Fagan. But there is no information regarding her siblings. She completed her education from the Niskayuna High School in Niskayuna, New York and later from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also known for the folk album that she has released.

Kate obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney. She obtained it with a doctoral thesis on the poetics of Lyn Heijinian. She teaches poetry at the University for Western Sydney as of now. Her other endeavors include editing How2, an online journal based in the US which focuses on poetry and poetics.

She has also released the album Diamond Wheel which actually won the Best Folk album award of the National Film and Sound Archive. Thus she also is a singer and has released a song which is known to her fans. Her family belonged to folk singers and this has been her major influence in the field of poetry.

Her several collections and poems in journals have been liked by academics and other fans around the world. Her poetry is said to characteristically include everyday experiences and the use of fractured language.

Her publications include chapters in books like The Salt Companion to John Tranter, journal articles like Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Angeliki and other publications like Blackbox Manifold Vol.4, Ekleksographia, Thirty Australian Poets, Heat magazine, Queensland Poetry Festival, The Octet Rule, Poems to Share, Fifty-one Contemporary Poets from Australia, First Light, Poems by Kate Fagan etc.

As far as her personal life is concerned, Kate is a mother of two and a devoted wife. She and poet Peter Minter have been married. They have portrayed their several works together in several publications. Their collective publications have been liked by their fans around the world. She has never been known to be in a relationship with anybody else and her previous dating list is not known.

This couple has two children together. The couple seems to be doing pretty well in their personal lives and marital problems and divorce issues have not come up. Their relationship thus seems to be a good one with them releasing their academicals and poetical creations together. Kate has not been a subject of criticism and speculations of being a lesbian.

She has been known to poetry fans around the world and her net worth must be the amount. The exact detail about her salary and net worth, however, has not been known to the general public. She has a height of 5 feet and 9 inches.

Her biography can be found in sites like the wiki and to obtain more information regarding her personal life, fans can follow her on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.