Kittie Belltree grew up in south London and has lived in west Wales for 35 years. Her debut poetry collection, Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks was published in 2019 (Parthian) and her short stories and reviews have appeared in numerous anthologies such as The Brown Envelope Book (Caparison, 2021), and the forthcoming Cast a Long Shadow (Honno, 2022). Alongside her writing, she works as a workshop facilitator, delivering creative well-being projects in schools and community settings as well as a Specialist Tutor for neurodivergent students at Aberystwyth University. She recently completed a PhD examining linguistic representations of trauma. She is also currently participating in Equal Power Equal Voice, a cross-equalities programme to increase diversity of representation in public and political life.
Kittie Belltree