Katie O’Pray (they/them) is a Bedforshire-based poet who is studying Linguistics & Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Winner of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2021 and recipient of The ruth weiss Foundation’s Emerging Poet Grant 2021, they use their poetry as a vessel to explore their overlapping and corroborating identities, as a queer person, a disabled person, a trauma survivor and addict. Their work has received recognition from the Magma Poetry Competition and the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry, as well as being shared in support of The National Survivor User Network and ELFT’s ‘Break the Stigma’ campaign.
