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Catherine Rankovic [pron."ranko-vick"] has taught university courses and community workshops in creative writing, editing, and publishing since 1986, and has worked as a magazine editor, newspaper reporter, webmaster, and freelancer.

Rankovic earned a B.A. in journalism from Marquette University, an M.A. in literature from Syracuse University, and an M.F.A. in writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis (Penultimate Press, 2010), a book of in-depth interviews with 13 St. Louis writers, and the books Island Universe: Essays and Entertainments (2007), Fierce Consent and Other Poems (2005). She co-authored Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions and Obsessions (2003).

Rankovic is a member of the Missouri Writers Guild, The St. Louis Publishers Association, The St. Louis Writers Guild, and the St. Louis Poetry Center. She currently teaches at Washington University and is an instructor for the online M.F.A. program at Lindenwood University.

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