Cat Russell

Poet, Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Cat Russell shares her life with her high school sweetheart and their son in the wilds of Ohio while writing stories, composing poetry, and learning more about the craft every day. Her work has been published in print and online, and she is the author of five books: Soul Picked Clean (March 2019),  An Optimist’s Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories (August 2020), and Pinholes: Traveling through the Curtain of the Night (November 2021), and Kaleidoscope (September 2022). She most recently ventured into self-publishing with her KINDLE chapbook Braving Persephone's Chill: Broken Haiku (January 2024).

Her current projects include a poetic-memoir of the pandemic--tentatively titled THE YEAR THE WORLD ENDED, AND WHAT CAME AFTER (A MEMOIR WITH VERSE), as well an upcoming audiobook of her poetry collection, Kaleidoscope. 

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Pinholes: Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night (Writing Knights Press, 2021)
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An Optimist's Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories (Venetian Spider Press, 2020)
Journal:
Beyond Centauri

Poetry

Anthologies:
Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology: 50th Anniversary (Writing Knights Press, 2019)
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Twisted Tales 2016: Flash Fiction with a Twist (Raging Aardvark Publishing, 2017)
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Poetry Quarterly: Summer 2016 (Prolific Press, 2016)
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Twisted Tales (Raging Aardvark Publishing, 2012)
Books:
Kaleidoscope: The Poetry of Cat Russell (Venetian Spider Press, 2022)
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Soul Picked Clean (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2019)

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Douglas Adams, William Shakespeare, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Jim C. Hines, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and too many Northeast Ohio poets to list
What I'm reading now: 
Looking for Alaska by John Green, Julia: 1984 by Sandra Newman, Enheduanna: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author by Sophus Helle

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
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Last update: Sep 23, 2024