Originally from Long Island, New York, Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of four poetry collections, including Superbloom (Gunpowder Press, forthcoming in January 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). Recent work appears in The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Josephine Quarterly, MER VOX, NELLE, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pleiades, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Tahoma Literary Review, Verse Daily, and West Trestle Review. Her unpublished collection, How We Disappear (formerly titled We Were Never Here and My Sweet Atlantis), was a finalist for Michigan State University’s Wheelbarrow Books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). Prescott earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from New York University.

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. She is co-founder of the nonprofit SWWIM (Supporting Women Writers in Miami) and editor-in-chief of their daily online literary journal SWWIM Every Day. In addition to her work in poetry, Prescott teaches yoga philosophy, facilitates the spiritual bookclub Satya Sangha at Ahanā Yoga, and leads yoga and writing retreats.

A mom to three beautiful humans, Prescott lives with her family in Coconut Grove, Florida.