Kat Dornian, Poet

Kat Dornian is an emerging, non-binary poet and Canadian settler residing in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary, Canada) on Treaty 7 Territory. After a cancer diagnosis in 2021, Kat found healing in the rivers and riparian areas that wind through the great plains and took up a pen to capture and share their experiences. Whether creating liberatory fiction or confessional poetry, they find inspiration in navigating chronic illness in the wake of the climate crisis, and connecting to self, community, and nature in this process. Their work has appeared in Wishbone Words and Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal.