Cat Russell

Poet, Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Cat Russell lives in Ohio, with her high school sweetheart and their son, while writing and learning more about the craft every day. Her work has been published in print and online, and she is the author of several books of poetry and prose--most recently, The Fairytale Ends: A Tale of Gawayne and the Green Knight (April 2025), as well as an audiobook version of her poetry collection, Kaleidoscope: the poetry of Cat Russell. She blogs monthly, podcasts occasionally, and is often mildly serious except when she's not.

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).

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Pinholes: Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night (Writing Knights Press, 2021)
,
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)
,
Twisted Tales 2016: Flash Fiction with a Twist (Raging Aardvark Publishing, 2017)
,
Poetry Quarterly: Summer 2016 (Prolific Press, 2016)
,
Twisted Tales (Raging Aardvark Publishing, 2012)
Books:
Kaleidoscope: The Poetry of Cat Russell (Venetian Spider Press, 2022)
,
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: 
To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower, The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins

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: Oct 07, 2025