Katy Giebenhain is a poet advocating for access to essential medicines. She is the author of Sharps Cabaret (Mercer University Press), winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her creative writing MPhil is from University of South Wales. Her MA is from University of Baltimore. Her BFA is from Oregon State. Along with Marty Malone and Alan Bogage she co-hosts a First Friday poetry series from September-June at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Katy has been a regional judge for Poetry Out Loud and is the former Poetry + Theology editor and designer for Seminary Ridge Review.

 
Katy Giebenhain ist eine amerikanische Autorin, die sich fűr den gerechteren Zugang zu lebenswichtigen Medikamenten in den USA einsetzt. Ihr Band mit Gedichten, Sharps Cabaret, herausgegeben von Mercer University Press, erhielt den Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Am ersten Freitagabend des Monats (September–Juni) organisiert sie gemeinsam mit Marty Malone und Alan Bogage eine Lesereihe im Kaffeehaus The Ragged Edge in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Katy arbeitete jahrelang als Redakteurin der Rubric Poesie und Theologie fűr das Seminary Ridge Review. Sie war mehrmals Jurorin der regionalen Vorentscheidung des Schűlerwettbewerb Poetry Out Loud. Katy hat ein MPhil in kreativem Schreiben der Universität von South Wales (Glamorgan). Ihren MA schloss sie an der Universität Baltimore ab. Ihren BFA schloss sie an der Oregon State Universität ab.  

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A Few Favorites

Ragged Edge Coffeehouse
Waldo’s & Company
​Health Humanities Consortium
Public Trust
T1International
YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County 
Adams County DFA Healthcare Task Force
I-MAK
Center for Artistic Activism
Bmore Art
Patients for Affordable Drugs
Camden Festival of Poetry
Tradeoffs
Rx/Museum
Kolaj Magazine
Kaiser Health News
Frostburg Center for Literary Arts
Religion Communicators Council
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Better Living through Beowulf
Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
Narrative Medicine Columbia University
Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida
Diabetes Training Camp
RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Poetry & Arts Festival
Gladstone’s Library
National Organization for Arts in Health
An Arm and A Leg 
John Gorka
Cartoonist Jen Sorensen
WITF
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Faith in Healthcare
Nadav Kander
Pyramid Atlantic Center for the Arts
Utz Rachowski
Laurie Wohl
​Schatzinsel Werners Buchladen
MILCK
Katherine Eban
​Tony Curtis
Danielle Ofri
Audrey Farley
Wilde Readings