Kath was born in Liverpool, studied in Belfast and London and now lives in, cycles round, and has swum across, Leeds.

Nothing escapes Kath, she has an eye for detail, the everyday, the absurd. She has a finely tuned ear too, poaching from queues in shops, people at airports. Whether reading her prose or poetry, Kath takes you through the daily tragi-comic dramas of life in a large city, its parks, swimming pools, canals, its headlice, teeth, its love, its deaths. And the sense of Ireland at the back of it all.

The lice and teeth appeared in collaborations with visual artists Janice Goodman, with whom she produced Open Wide and the Little Book of Lice. Kath's novel Waiting for the Morning was published by The Women’s Press and her poetry collection Anyone Left Standing by Smith Doorstop. She has just finished collaborating with Finnish and Yorkshire writers on Interland, which Smith Doorstop will publish this September, in the meantime you can find it online in Kath's links.

Recently she has been working with writers in Malawi for the British Council’s Crossing Borders project.