Katrina Naomi

Katrina Naomi received an Authors’ Foundation Award from the Society of Authors for work on her third collection, Wild Persistence. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College. Katrina’s recent work has been broadcast on Radio 4’s Front Row, Poetry Please, BBC TV Spotlight and on Poems on the Underground. Her second poetry collection, The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, published by Seren (2016), was chosen by Foyles Bookshop as one of its Foyles’ Five for Poetry. She was the first writer-in-residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, W Yorks. Her recent pamphlets include Typhoon Etiquette, (Verve Poetry Press) published following an Arts Council-funded trip to Japan, Same But Different with Helen Mort (Hazel Press), which won a Saboteur Award, and An Alfoxden Journal with Sara Hudston (Hazel Press). She was highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry.

Katrina has been poet in residence at the Arnolfini, and at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales where she wrote a sequence on the Suffragettes, published by Rack Press as Hooligans. Her debut collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake received an Arts Council Award and was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award. Her pamphlet Lunch at the Elephant & Castle won the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition and her pamphlet Charlotte Brontë’s Corset was published to acclaim by the Brontë Society. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, a tutor for Arvon and Ty Newydd, and runs Poetry Surgeries for the Poetry Society. She is published by The TLS, The Spectator, The Poetry Review and Poetry Wales. She received an award from the Royal Literary Fund in 2014 for her writing. She enjoys performing her poetry and collaborating with visual artists, musicians and film-makers. She is originally from Margate and lives in Cornwall.

Katrina’s fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, winner of the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors, is forthcoming in July 2024.