Kristina Diprose

Kristina Diprose won the Oxford Canal Festival poetry competition in 2024 and has been shortlisted in the Artemesia Arts, Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Ginkgo Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival competitions. Her debut pamphlet, Thin Spells, was published in 2025 by The Black Cat Poetry Press. She was an Ilkley Literature Festival 2023 New Northern Poet, and has appeared at the Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing, Pa Gya! Literary Festival, and on BBC Front Row. As well as being a Die Hard enthusiast, she is a passionate advocate for nature and a resident artist at the Bradford Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve.