I grew up in the Dark Corner of the Appalachian mountains which is where Deliverance (1972) takes place. My dad was a schizophrenic attorney who spent a lot of time in Japan while working on a case for Mitsubishi in the 70s, and my mom is a southern baptist debutante from the last vestiges of the Piedmont Poe family, Edgar Allan Poe’s closest living relatives (no sons to carry on the name). I left home at 16 after my dad died to study art and distance myself from my abusive mom, who has the same name as me. I’ve worked in galleries in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, got an mfa in interdisciplinary arts in San Francisco, and currently work at a jewelry counter in a department store in the Midwest// trying to save up enough funds to move back to the Hudson Valley in upstate NY~a magical place I feel most at home, with my partner Dane Martin. I post my drawing practice @ katherinepoe.tumblr.com
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