Kathryn
she/her | Poet. | Australia
Kathryn Reese is a poet living on Peramangk land in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in medical science and enjoys solo road trips, hiking and chasing frogs to record their calls for science. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, has been highly commended in the Venie Hologram Environmental Poetry Prize. She is co-winner of the 2024 Heroines Writing Prize.
Selected work
I can’t sleep with you because you have an incompatible phone charger — SillyGoosePress
SillyGoosePress, 2026
When you join me for tea on the back verandah
the engine idling, 2026
All I Own I Will Share with You
Stirring: A Literary Collection, 2026
Sunrise sonnet
Neologism Poetry Journal, 2026
The God of Unwanted Children by Kathryn Reese
2026
My story is a cliché you say is best avoided by Kathryn Reese
2026
What I might know if I let myself by Kathryn Reese
West Trestle Review, 2026
Vol. 2 Abundance - Man-Made Nature.pdf
Abundance Literary Magazine, 2026
birthright/bloodline
Pithead Chapel, 2026
Kathryn Reese | The tale of the dining table as told to itself
Claudine: A Literary Magazine, 2026
We Re-name Mondays and Rainstorms
Flight: A Literary Sampler, 2026
Who you used to love—
Wigleaf, 2026
Beerwah, To the Pied Cormorant, Periodic Cicadas
Crowstep Journal, 2025
Hemiglossed
Red Room Poetry, 2024
Transportable
Necessary Fiction, 2026
This recipe is a hiding place
manywor(l)ds, 2025
Storm Season
Litnamjooning, 2025
case review
Blood+Honey, 2025
Aubade for a Fitzroy apartment
Shot Glass Journal, 2025
Elegy for the Southern Beaches
The Suburban Review, 2025
Five Poems
The Argyle Literary Magazine, 2025
Facts about Shapeshifters
Midway Journal, 2025
Persephone and the Angel Boy of Romford
Gone Lawn, 2025
Post vespers
Temple in a City, 2025
Prompt
Temple in a City, 2025
Natural selection
FlashFlood Journal, 2025
Hermit crab for the insta spiritual
the engine(idling, 2025
Naugatuck River Review issue 34, Summer/Fall 2025
Soon
Lulu
Ninshubur & A Note for My Daughter
Neo Perennial Press, 2024
'Dinosaurs at a resort impact the community and have flow-on effects on the economy' by Kathryn Reese - Holmgren Permaculture Design
2024
Transform & Drive
Neo Perennial Press, 2023
haiku
2025
Beth
Heartlines Spec, 2024
Photon & Unedited
5 fleas, 2024
Self-Portrait as a Shopping Trolley
Meniscus Literary Journal, 2024
HFR-"Queue" by Kathryn Reese
Hayden's Ferry Review
Role Play Game
JAKE, 2023
The Questions I Swallowed
Cutbow Quarterly
B&B
Magpie Zine, 2025
Emily
Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, 2024
Flicker & FWB
miniskirt magazine, 2023
MORDACIA PRAECOX THE AUSTRALIAN BROOK LAMPREY, -
Epistemic Literary, 2024
Medicine
long trek press, 2024
After Ginsberg & Whitman left the Supermarket
Moonlighting, 2024
Mortlock Wing, State Library of South Australia
NonBinary Review, 2024
Newell Highway, Moree
the engine(idling, 2024
Staying home on Sunday
Lighthouse Journal, 2024
[Poetry] Five Poems by Kathryn Reese
Kelp Journal, 2023
Voice Message #205
The Good Life Review, 2024
Hemiglossed
Red Room Poetry, 2024
To Marcy
Gone Lawn, 2024
Apotheosis
Spark to Flame: A Journal of Collaborative Poetry
Gheerulla Lullaby
Audience Askew Literary Journal, 2023
The Principal and The Sea
Glassworks