About me
Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. She is the 2021 U.K. Poetry Slam Champion and a World Slam Finalist. She talks openly about disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues and joys and gender politics in her wide range of poems. She is the co-Founder of the Bath spoken word event The Poetry Spa.
She was longlisted for the Disabled Poets Prize 2023. She was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Performance Poetry, and the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Artist in 2022. In 2021 she was one of the featured poets on the (BAFTA winning) Sky Arts spoken word TV show Life and Rhymes.
Her debut collection ‘Cliff Notes’ was released by Verve Poetry Press in February.
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