Welcome. My name is Katie. I am as wyrd as I look.

I am a writer, poet, blogger and photographer bound to the North by blood, breath and bone.

I'm an author and have, since 2006, written several books. My most recent work is People of the Sea Ice, a poetic exploration of the Arctic. (Currently unavailable but due to be reprinted.) My upcoming poetry collection, Waiting For Gryla, is themed on the Icelandic winter and includes the poem Grýla. 
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As a poet, I've released a spoken word album called Arctic Fever in collaboration with Crown of Asteria. I've read at the Royal Festival Hall in London and across the UK, as well as in Canada, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. My poems have found homes in dozens of anthologies and magazines, including The Eye of Temenos (Ek Zuban), Full Moon & Foxglove (Three Drops Press) and The Dizziness of Freedom (Bad Betty). In 2021, I was granted an artist residency at Gröndal's House in Reykjavik, Iceland, to begin work on Waiting For Gryla. 2022, my poetry set, The Darkest Days, opened for the Krampus Ball in Whitby, UK.

As a freelance writer, I've penned print and online articles for Routes North, CVLT Nation, Beautiful Bizarre, Bizarre, Tattoo Me Now, Asgard Root, KENAZ, The Northern Echo, Expat Finder, Thought Catalogue, Blogosphere, Kindred Spirit Magazine and numerous other publications and websites.

I've been a blogger for a while. To be painfully specific, I've blogged since 2004. If you're old enough to remember Live Journal, I was there. I ran the darkly inclined blog Wyrd Words & Effigies from 2013 until 2023 and The Girl With Cold Hands, a blog celebrating the North from every conceivable angle. I now blog at A Wyrd Of Her Own and A Nordic Fever. 

I'm a lyricist and, since 2019, have written three albums and several singles for my Witch Folk band Cave Mouth. I've also written lyrics for the bands Bogwitch, Beyond Man, Feigd and Crown of Asteria. 

I'm a photographer, and self-portraiture saved my life in 2020. Today, I'm more interested in photographing other people. I was commissioned by the Swedish black metal band Mara to create the art for their album Loka Mær and have collaborated with Dyfliza, Giorgia Sottotetti, Aðalbjörn 'Addi' Tryggvason and Necoshorns, to name a few. 

I used to be an editor and publisher. In 2009, while studying for my BA (Hons) in creative writing, I founded the press Slice of the Moon Books with Beautiful Scruffiness Literary Magazine, which ran for five issues. In later years, I published three poetry anthologies: The Mountains You Cannot See: An Anthology of Poetry About Mental Health, Earth, We Are Listening: An Anthology of Eco Poetry and MAIDEN MOTHER CRONE. While living in Norway in 2014, I collaborated with Nordland Publishing to create Wyrd Words & Effigies Magazine and Morbid Curse Magazine.

If you're still here and interested in digging deeper, I've been interviewed at a few places. While these interviews are old, they provide a thorough insight into my life and work over the years.

Dark Pulse
Unquiet Things
Vargamor
Bleaq
Le Scribe Du Rock (Focusing on Cave Mouth)

If you'd like to get in touch (maybe you're interested in collaborating on something), you can write to me at [email protected]


*The video on my Home page was made in collaboration with Smoggy Wood Productions and was filmed in the woods where I used to play as a kid.

*The Web of Wyrd was illustrated by Nafre, one of my closest, wisest, most talented friends, though we've yet to meet in real life.