Catherine Balaq is a writer and body psychotherapist. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Forward Prize. She is Co-Editor of Black Cat Press. She has two collections of poems, 'animaginary' with Black Cat and 'Deathless' with Verve. Catherine also writes novels and is represented by Donald Winchester at Watson Little. https://www.watsonlittle.com/client/catherine-balaq/
Catherine Balaq channels the daemon onto the page, summoning colour from darkness.
-Paul Lynch, Booker Prize winner, 2023.
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Satya Bosman is the Founder and Co-Editor at Black Cat Press. Her poetry won Third Prize in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio Competition 2025 judged by Ella Frears. She has work in 14 Magazine, The Lake, Porridge Magazine, The Storms Journal, The Poetry Lighthouse, Eche and Full House Literary amongst others. Her poetry collection Dream Logic is published by Crumps Barn Studio.
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