Kate Hendry is a poet and teacher.
Her latest collection, MX SIMP, has just been published by Mariscat Press. Copies can be bought here.
Her poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including PN Review, The North, Mslexia and The Rialto.
Her first pamphlet collection, The Lost Original was published by Happenstance Press.
Through The Scottish Poetry Library, she has edited three anthologies of poems for The Scottish Poetry Library: The Poem Goes to Prison, Tools of the Trade: Poems for New Doctors, and To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers which can be bought from the Scottish Poetry Library.
She teaches English in a secondary school and has previously taught English and creative writing for the Open University, Edinburgh Napier University, in prisons and FE colleges.
In 2013, she was the Scottish Book Trust Reader in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. She ran the Nothing But the Poem reading groups at the Scottish Poetry Library and delivered reading workshops at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Her short fiction has also been widely published. Her story ‘My Husband Wants to Talk to Me Again’ was selected for Salt’s Best British Short Stories 2016. Other stories can be found in New Writing Scotland, Mslexia and the Bridport Anthology 2009. In 2008 she received a Scottish Arts Council New Writer’s Bursary.
Kate Hendry 