Cat Woodward was born in Lancashire in 1990, she now lives in Norwich. Cat holds a PhD in lyric poetics from the University of East Anglia. In 2018 she won the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. Cat mentors and teaches Creative Writing; she has worked with The Poetry School, The National Centre for Writing and runs The Poetry Master Class. Her latest publication is Sueño del Alma: 22 Andalusian Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
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Cat now publishes all of her new work for free on her Substack, Solarion. Visit Solarion to read new poems and posts, subscribe for free or become a paid subscriber to support Cat and her poetry.
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Email catwoodward.poet@gmail.com
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If you would like to commission Cat to write a poem, book her for a reading, invite her to teach, edit, judge, or anything else, please get in touch.
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