About Katie Metcalfe

The North in her poems is much more than a geographic location. - Bob Beagrie

Katie Metcalfe is a professional writer, poet, blogger and creative practitioner.

Her creative work is greatly influenced by mental health, dark and obscure subjects, the Arctic and Scandinavian culture, lifestyle and nature.

In 2013 she founded Wyrd Words & Effigies, a blog which celebrates the strange and the shadowy. In 2015 she launched The Girl With Cold Hands, a blog documenting her new life in Sweden. She is the author of seven books, and the creator of numerous magazines.

Katie has performed her poetry at events across the UK, in Norway, Sweden and Canada and has been published in many anthologies and magazines including Break-Out, The Wilds and Ink On Paper. 

As a freelancer she has worked for a wide variety of companies, including The New Heroes & Pioneers, Routes North, Dirge Magazine, CVLT Nation, Tattoo Me Now and Beautiful Bizarre.

Katie's has had first hand experience with anorexia, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosis, hypochondria and depression, and is passionate about open
communication in regards to mental health.

She specialises in therapeutic writing, and has facilitated workshops on the subject.

Katie is also a passionate photographer and you can see her work here.

Her most recent poetry collection is entitled In The Hours Of Darkness.




Readers Respond To Dying Is Forbidden In Longyearbyen

The settings are made so visible in this collection, each poem takes you to the freezing north and leaves you there. Very powerful literary art drawing parallels to our own traits. Unforgettable.

Beautiful and stark, a collection shot through with a cold finality.