Cat Dixon
Cat Dixon is the author of What Happens in Nebraska, Eva, and Too Heavy to Carry (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2022, 2016, 2014), and the chapbooks The Book of Levinson and Our End Has Brought the Spring (Finishing Line Press, 2017, 2015), and Table for Two (Poet's Haven, 2019). Her most recent chapbook, Dispatches from the Unfillable Sinkhole, was released from Alien Buddha Press in June 2023. Cat is a poetry editor with The Good Life Review and an adjunct instructor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. In September 2026, her manuscript Waiting for the Call was one of five finalists for the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award.
Her poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous journals including Sugar House Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, Coe Review, Eclectica, and Mid-American Review. Recent poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, The Bookends Review, and The Dolomite Review.
Poems nominated for a Pushcart:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Same Faces Collective, 2024)
Viewmaster, what will you reveal tonight (Paddler Press, 2022)
My lover has left and everything is worse now (Coastal Shelf, 2021)
At the Mediation Table (Gordon Square Review, 2018)
Poems nominated for BEST OF THE NET:
12 Steps (Disturb the Universe Magazine, 2025)
My lover has left and everything is worse now (Coastal Shelf, 2021)
The Mother's Creed (Still: The Journal, 2018)
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Cat was the co-editor of Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary Anthology (BWP, 2017).
Her work appears in the following anthologies:
The Alien Buddha after The Alien Buddha (Alien Buddha Press, 2025).
They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018).
The Poet's Haven Digest: Darker Than Fiction (The Poet's Haven, 2018)
Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, edited by Daniel Simon (SFASU Press, 2017).
The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers (Helicon West Press, 2016).
Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, edited by Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015).
Like a Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity, edited by Nancy Lynée Woo (Lucid Moose Lit, 2015).
The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets (BWP, 2014).
Writings From the Heart: Stories and Poetry From Around the World (Literary Lunes Publications, 2012).
The Storm is Coming: An Anthology (Sleeping Cat Books, 2012).