About Katy

Katy started writing poetry after the death of her father, poet Derek Mahon, in 2020, and took several writing courses, including two with Helen Ivory through the National Centre for Writing/UEA, and Gallery Press's 'Gallery Goes Workshopping' with Grace Wilentz. Katy has undertaken a collaboration with English seascape artist Carolyn Coles for York Open Studios 2021, where she recorded her ekphrastic poems as a soundscape for the artwork, and she has read her work at various poetry readings and events in Yorkshire. Other poems have appeared in a number of Irish and English journals, most recently Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Honest Ulsterman, The High Window and SurVision. Katy was New Irish Writing's featured poet in the Irish Independent in February 2022, and her debut chapbook Some Indefinable Cord was published by Dreich in June 2022. A second pamphlet is due to be published in 2025.