A former Café Poet (Australian Poetry) and Forever Now resident (APHIDS and Vitalstatistix), Kathryn Hummel was nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize and in the same year, won the Dorothy Porter Award for poetry at the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards. More details on Kathryn’s work can be found at Kathryn Hummel
Kathryn describes herself as ‘the working-class kid of a part-Swedish immigrant, part-Australian grown, all-socialist family – born and brought up on lands never ceded by their traditional custodians, the Kaurna people. A PhD in Social Science, I have no formal qualifications in writing. My practice developed from a passion for reading, art and music and has been encouraged by teachers, mentors, colleagues and friends along the way. This approach is probably why I don’t call any genre a stranger: I create works of digital media/poetry, non-fiction, fiction and scholarly research, which have been published/presented/translated/anthologised in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Nepal, New Zealand, the Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, UK, the USA, and likely more places I don’t know about. My writing concerns the themes of urban spaces; identity; gender; travel; transience; post-colonialism; time, and memory. Glancing over my selected list of publications will give you an overview of my various styles and range.’