Kate Potts’ second collection, Feral (Bloodaxe, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and a Telegraph poetry book of the month. Her debut pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first first full-length collection was Pure Hustle (Bloodaxe, 2011). Pretenders, an Arts Council-funded multi-vocal work focusing on imposter feelings, will be published by Bloodaxe in March 2025. 

Kate teaches poetry writing for Dialect and the Poetry School, and freelances as a teacher, mentor and editor. She has previously taught for City University, the University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, and Middlesex University.

Kate's Substack newsletter is Speak Up! On writing, failing better, and taking up space. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with her son.