Katrina Porteous

Katrina Porteous is a poet inspired by the lives, language and ecology of England’s wild Northumberland Coast. In 1982-4 she studied at UC Berkeley and Harvard on a Harkness Fellowship. As an ambassador for New Networks for Nature, she has collaborated with naturalists and scientists, and together with Northumbria University has produced audio-visual poetry for a planetarium. In 2021 Katrina received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She has published four collections with Bloodaxe, most recently Rhizodont (2024), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and which won the Laurel Prize 2025.