Biography
Kathryn Bevis
Kathryn Bevis (1975 – 2024) was a poet and teacher whose pamphlet Flamingo (Seren) was one of the Poetry Society’s ‘Books of the Year’ for 2022. Her debut collection The Butterfly House (Seren) was posthumously shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025. Poems by Kathryn won the Wales Poetry Award, the Crysse Morrison Award, and the Second Light Competition. ‘My body tells me that she’s filing for divorce’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written – in 2023.
