Originally from Long Island, New York, Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of four poetry collections, including Superbloom (Gunpowder Press, 2026), Accidental Garden (Gunpowder Press, 2023, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize), Maria Sings (dancing girl press, 2017), and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press, 2012). A

Her work has appeared widely in print, online literary journals, and anthologies, including Colorado Review, NELLE, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pleiades, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net-nominated poet and the recipient of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Award (2026-28) presented by O, Miami and the The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center, Prescott earned an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from NYU.

Her unpublished collection, How We Disappear (formerly titled We Were Never Here and My Sweet Atlantis), was a finalist for Michigan State University’s Wheelbarrow Books Prize, The St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press), and the Texas Review Press Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection competition (The Word Works).

A writer who loves to see different art forms in dialogue, Prescott is a serial collaborator. She published two fables in collaboration with the Brazilian artist Adriana Carvalho - 101 Dresses, which became the catalogue for the artist’s retrospective at the ArtCenter/South Florida, and Little Rose and the Giant, which was exhibited at Art Live Miami; her poems have been featured in Momentum Dance Company's Poetry Project, a dance-poetry collaboration; and she has paired with visual artists, including the letterpress artist and Miami legend, Tom Virgin, to create broadsheets for the SWEAT Broadsheet Collection.  

Over the years Prescott has worked as a copywriter, editor, book seller, activist, fundraiser, event organizer, organic garden founder, professor, and teaching artist. Prescott is co-founder of the literary arts nonprofit organization SWWIM and editor-in-chief of the poem-a-day journal SWWIM Every Day. In addition to her work in poetry, Prescott teaches yoga philosophy, facilitates a spiritual book club (Satya Sangha), co-leads yoga and writing retreats (Spark Retreat), and is an affiliate leader for Helping Parents Heal (HPH), a support group for parents with children in spirit. In addition, she and her family raise funds for Team 620, a fund created in her son Austen’s memory, to further brain cancer research, advocacy, and treatment. A mom to three beautiful humans, Prescott lives with her family in Coconut Grove,