Kathie-Louise Clarke is a British raised writer and artist, living in Oakland, California. She is inspired to create pieces that interrogate and illuminate the human condition, with a focus on love, loss and the beauty of the natural world. Her poetry appears, or is forthcoming in various journals including, Mindful; Seaside Gothic; Boudin (McNeese); Tiny Seed; The Orchards Poetry Journal and The Orange & Bee. Her collection titled 'This too is love' was shortlisted by Longleaf Press in 2025