Cat Dixon was born in 1981 at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. She is the poetry editor for The Good Life Review. She is also currently an adjunct professor of creative writing at UNO's College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media Writer's Workshop. 

She has been nominated several times for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize. and is the author of three full length poetry collections and four chapbooks,  and is the author of three full length poetry collections and four chapbooks 

Her work. has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Sugar House Review, Midwest Quarterly, Eclectica, and Coe Review.

- April 2026

Etcetera

• Website(s):

  • Cat Dixon | Writer's Workshop | University of Nebraska Omaha 

Biographies, Interviews, & Bibliographies:

• • Cat Dixon | Nebraska Authors (not yet updated)

  • Geosi Reads

    • Interview with Cat Dixon, Author of ”Eva” 

  •  The Good Life Review:

    •  A Conversation Between Poets Cat Dixon and Jamie Wendt 

Poetry:

• Published in VILLAIN ERA:

  • Prayer of Petition

  • The Yearly Visit

• Published in Up the Staircase Quarterly  

  • If it doesn't matter 

• Published in ECLECTICA

  • Adam's Lap — Poetry, July/August 2009

  • Missed Connection — Poetry, January/February 2021

• Published in  THE WILD WORD:

  • Cancer Ate My Mother, 

• Published in  Topology Magazine:

  • To burn oneself

• Published in  The Literary Underground – In Conversation: 

  • The First Week at the Funeral Home

Books:

Her full-length books are:

1. Too Heavy to Carry, (March 2014, SFA Press)

2. Eva, (2016. SFA Press) 

3. What Happens in Nebraska, (November, 2022, SFA Press)

Her chapbooks are: 

1. Our End Has Brought the Spring (2015, Finishing Line Press)

2. The Book of Levinson (2017, Finishing Line Press)

3. Table for Two (2019): sadly out of print - published by Poet's Haven, a small press that has since closed 

4. Dispatches from the Unfillable Sinkhole (2023, Alien Buddha Pres) 

Edior for:

Watching the Perseids;  The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary Anthology (August 2014, University of Nebraska Press)

Book Reviews:

• Book Review: What Happens in Nebraska by Cat Dixon - Nicholas Litchfield 

• Too Heavy to Carry by Cat Dixon | Goodreads 

   Selection of Online Readings