Catherine Jagoe is a British-born translator and writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of two books of poetry, Praying to the God of Small Things, named an Outstanding Work in Poetry for 2024 by the Wisconsin Library Association, and Bloodroot, which won the 2016 Settlement House American Poetry Prize and the Wisconsin Writers Edna Meudt Award. Her translations include two novels, That Bringas Woman by Benito Pérez Galdós and My Name is Light by Elsa Osorio, and two co-translated volumes of Uruguayan poetry, Voice & Shadow: New & Selected Poems by Luis Bravo and Reborn in Ink by Laura Cesarco Eglin. Her creative work and translations have appeared in numerous literary magazines and been featured on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She is a contributor to Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Life audio essay series. Her memoir Unbelonging: A Life in Search of Home is forthcoming with the University of Wisconsin Press in August 2026.
