• 'Edgy, deep, intimate'
  -Anne-Marie Fyfe
• 'A pretty awesome poet'
  -Agnes Meadows
• 'A unique way with imagery'
  -David Cooke, The North
• 'Katrina balanced creativity
  and rigour' -Maria Fusco
• 'A riotously imaginative
  landscape' -Todd Swift on
  The Girl with the Cactus Handshake

Katrina Naomi is a poet based in south London and is originally from Margate. She is working towards a Creative Writing PhD at Goldsmiths, with a focus on violence in poetry.

Her first full collection, 'The Girl with the Cactus Handshake' (Templar Poetry), was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award and received an Arts Council England writer's award.