Cate Peebles

Cate Peebles (she/her) is an award-winning poet and professional archivist. She received her BA in English from Reed College, MFA in Poetry from The New School, and MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2017, she was a National Digital Stewardship Resident fellow at the Yale Center for British Art where she developed preservation strategies for permanently active born-digital art collection documentation. She has held museum archivist positions at the Yale Center for British Art and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and she was the Archival Processing Manager at Tulane University Special Collections. As an archivist, she specializes in institutional and arts-related collection management; as a scholar, she is interested in exploring ‘archival impulses’ in contemporary visual media and literature. 

Cate is the author of two poetry collections, Thicket (Lost Roads Press, 2018) and The Haunting (Tupelo Press, 2025), and five chapbooks, including Sun King, winner of the 2024 Tomaž Salamun Prize from Factory Hollow Press, and The Woodlands, winner of the 2016 Sixth Finch chapbook contest. Her poetry has appeared widely in print and online literary magazines such as The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, diode, Fence, Ploughshares, Tin House, and Volt. She is coeditor of the online poetry magazine Fou. Her writing has been awarded grants from The Academy of American Poets and the Vermont Studio Center.

In her doctoral studies, Cate is interested in researching documentary and archival poetics; digital preservation of early 21st-century online magazine publishing; material culture; and archival aesthetics, particularly in horror literature and film.