Originally from Long Island, New York, Catherine Esposito Prescott’s poetry collection, Accidental Garden, won Gunpowder Press’s 2022 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize (selected by Danusha Laméris). She is also the author of two chapbooks, Maria Sings (dancing girl press, 2017) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, Green Mountains Review Online, MER VOX, Mezzo Cammin, NELLE, Northwest Review, Pleiades, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and West Trestle Review. Her second full-length 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 and mediums 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 worked 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 SWWIM and editor in chief of SWWIM Every Day. An RYT 200-HR yoga instructor with a 300-HR yoga philosophy certification, Prescott teaches vinyasa yoga and yoga philosophy and leads yoga and writing retreats.

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