Katrina Naomi is a poet based in south London and is originally from Margate. Her first full collection 'The Girl with the Cactus Handshake' has just been published by Templar Poetry, priced at £9.99 and is available now. You can read more about the book, see comments from the poets Roddy Lumsden, Todd Swift and Anne-Marie Fyfe and find out where to purchase a copy in the Publications section of this site - simply click on the link below.

Katrina is currently the first Writer in Residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire, where she is writing a series of new poems and running various workshops. She received an Arts Council England writer's award for 2008-9 and a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2009. Katrina has just been shortlisted in the 2009 Bridport Prize and commended in the 2009 Poetry on the Lake Competition. In 2008 she won the Templar Poetry Competition and the Ledbury Poetry Festival Text Poem Contest. Katrina has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths.  
 
Her pamphlet 'Lunch at the Elephant & Castle' is also available - read comments from the poets James Byrne, Michael Laskey and Julia Bird (the latter in the current issue of 'Poetry London) on this book, and see its availability in the Publications section of this site - simply click on the link below.  

News, Readings and Events:
Oxfam has just issued 'Asking a Shadow to Dance: 35 Young British Poets for Oxfam', which features Katrina's poems. The DVD is available on ebay and from Oxfam Bookshops, priced at £12.99.

Katrina will be reading at London's Ronnie Scott's on 14 February with Fran Landesman and Dorothea Smart. See the EVENTS section of this website for further details and information on other readings in London and elsewhere.

Katrina has recently performed her work at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, the Derwent Poetry Festival, the Essex Poetry Festival, at London's Poetry Cafe and Troubadour Cafe, among many other venues. She will be running various events from the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire, over 2009-2010 where she is Writer in Residence.

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