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Kate Garrett is an incomprehensible being in very strange surroundings (just like you). She's a writer, yes, but she is also a mama, a pagan witch still looking for her Buddha-nature, landscape wanderer, animal and plant lover, bird watcher, friend of trees (if not always a tree hugger: her favourites are yew, blackthorn, and hawthorn, and you have to love them all rather carefully), and history, horror, and folklore obsessive. She teaches creative writing to lifelong learners, and is the social media coordinator for an 800 year old church. Kate's poetry, flash fiction, and non-fiction have been widely published online and in print, and she is the author of several books. Most recently, her horror poetry pamphlet, Deeds, was published by Roswell Publishing (September 2023). Her collection of poetry and fiction, A Box at the Back of the Junk Shop was also published by Roswell Publishing in June 2023. Kate has a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing (first class honours) from Sheffield Hallam University. Her poetry has been nominated once for a Pushcart Prize, four times for Best of the Net, and The Density of Salt (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2016) was longlisted for Best Pamphlet in the Saboteur Awards 2016. Her pamphlet You've never seen a doomsday like it (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2017) was Poetry Kit book of the month for January 2018, and included in the winter roundup from The Poetry Book Society in 2017. She is the founding editor of the online journals Three Drops from a Cauldron, Picaroon Poetry, Lonesome October Lit, and Bonnie's Crew (which are all on indefinite hiatus), and currently edits Mugwort Magazine. Kate was the Magical Editor for Mookychick magazine (which is also on indefinite hiatus), and is a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Kate was born in rural southern Ohio in 1980, but moved to the UK in 1999, where she still lives - down by the River Teme on the wild and wonderful Welsh border - with her husband, children, cat, and an assortment of shrimps and fishes. Wherever she goes in this world, she always inhabits a between place in her heart. |