Catherine Graham lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a Northern Voices Poetry Award winner. Catherine has read at numerous poetry events including the Durham Literature Festival, Northern Stage, the Liverpool International Weekend of Poetry (with Jim Bennett, The Poetry Kit) and a number of Amnesty International Poetry benefits. Her chapbook Signs was published by ID on Tyne Press. Catherine's first full collection Things I Will Put In My Mother's Pocket was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing and was one of The Poetry Kit's top five recommended books for 2011. More recently an L. S. Lowry-inspired pamphlet, Like A Fish Out Of Batter, also with IDP www.indigodreams.co.uk . Catherine's latest 'carer' poems are available to read and to listen to in the free-to-download anthology I Sing, Therefore I Am over at carerspoetry.org