Hi. My name is Kate Garrett. I write poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, often simultaneously.
My first full-length collection is available now from Rhythm & Bones Press (or directly from me). It's called The saint of milk and flames, it's made up of 50 poems inspired by my own life, as well as history and myth, exploring trauma, grief, healing, fire, faith, doubt, growth, and belonging, and you can read all about it on the Rhythm & Bones website by clicking the cover image.
My mini chapbook To Feed My Woodland Bones [A Changeling's Tale] is available for pre-order now from Animal Heart Press. This book is made up of 12 poems based in my very real experiences as an autistic, androgynous, bisexual abuse survivor, lover, and parent, but through the magical, otherworldly lens of a changeling. The book will be released on 1 September. View the trailer here.
It's not every day a writer gets this kind of praise about who they are, but when it does happen they make nice website endorsements:
"Just as interesting in person as she'd seemed on the internet."
- Poet, songwriter, and reviewer Ian Badcoe, on his blog, after the Deadly, Delicate book launch
"...a magical pixie of the poetry world."
- Zoe Mitchell, a magical poet in her own right, in an interview with The Literary Pig
If you want poetry about goth selkies, real-life fairytale villains, changelings, ghosts, love and lust, everyday magic, motherhood, sassafras, secrets, and lost things (to name a few) or...
If you want historical fiction poems about pirates (especially queer and/or female ones), cannibalism, witches, prophecies, and puritans (again, to name a few), or...
If you want a poet who can read this sort of thing at your event, or...
If you want someone to run workshops based around any of these things, well...
You've come to the right place. Welcome.
If you want historical fiction poems about pirates (especially queer and/or female ones), cannibalism, witches, prophecies, and puritans (again, to name a few), or...
If you want a poet who can read this sort of thing at your event, or...
If you want someone to run workshops based around any of these things, well...
You've come to the right place. Welcome.
(If you like what I do, and want to support my writing, all donations are appreciated.)
