Kathleen Bell grew up on the ninth floor of a well-designed council block with “the best views in London” but for the past thirty years has made her home in Nottingham.
Kathy has won first prize in the Nottingham Poetry Competition (judged by Liz Berry), second prize in the Brittle Star Competition (judged by George Szirtes) as well as being longlisted in the National Poetry and Mslexia competitions and commended elsewhere.
She co-edited the fundraising anthology Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge (Five Leaves, 2015). Her poetry pamphlet at the memory exchange (Oystercatcher, 2014) was shortlisted in the Saboteur awards. In 2021, having escaped from the demands of academia into the quiet of the Covid era, she finally published her first full collection, Disappearances (Shoestring Press) as well as the lockdown pamphlet, Do You Know How Kind I Am? (Leafe)
She has also published a handful of short stories, written two unpublished novels and enjoys reviewing other poets’ work
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