Katie Ailes

2018

Katie Ailes

Location: Edinburgh
Pronouns: she/her

Katie Ailes is on a mission to smash the misconception that academics are not creative. In fact, she’s managed to bring the two together, by completing a PhD focused on the performance of authenticity in UK spoken word.

Katie spends free time performing and coordinating programming in the contemporary spoken word field. Her poem Outwith was chosen as one of the Scottish Poetry Library Best Scottish Poems of 2016.

Katie’s first poetry collection, Homing, was released in 2015 and later published in the House of Three anthology series in 2016.  

Katie co-organises and performs with the collective Loud Poets, including touring with them to the Brighton, Prague, and Edinburgh Fringe festivals.

And she also wrote and performed a poem For My Daughter for us.