Catherine Tufariello (born 1963 Ithaca, New York) is an American poet.
She graduated from University at Buffalo, and Cornell University with a PhD. She taught at Cornell University, the College of Charleston, and the University of Miami.
Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and Yale Italian Poetry (translations).
She lives in Indiana, where she and her husband teach at Valparaiso University, with their daughter.