Katherine Gibbel grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has been published in or is forthcoming from The Bennington Review, The Rumpus, Broadly, Dialogist, TheInvisible Bear, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships or prizes from the Vermont Studio Center, the Academy of American Poets, Wesleyan University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry.
I read Alice Munro’s books in benders. It usually takes me less than two days to finish one of her collections, and while reading it, I make and break promises…