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).
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.
Email catwoodward.poet@gmail.com
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.
