Kat Capel is a writer, PhD candidate and co-director of the expanded literary workshop series Read the Room, which focuses on the facilitation of writing workshops, lectures and readings for those writing outside the university. Kat grew up in Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung land, in Tennant Creek on Warumungu country, and in Cairns, also known as Gimuy. They are now based on Wurudjeri country in Narrm/Melbourne.
Kat’s short fiction and poetry has been published in Heat Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and No More Poetry, among others. Their first poetry manuscript work & love was highly commended by the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize and subsequently published by Incendium Radical Library in 2021. Their debut unpublished novel, Heavy Petting, was shortlisted for the Unpublished Manuscript Award for the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. They have since signed with A4 Literary.
