Catherine Kidd

Writing

Catherine Kidd is a writer and performer whose multimedia collaborations and solo works have toured extensively to festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Her solo show, Sea Peach, described as “an adult blend of Dr. Seuss and Aesop’s Fables,” toured internationally for six years. It also won a 2003 Montreal English Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Text. Her short story Green-Eyed Beans was nominated for the 2005 Journey Prize. Her performed poetry has played to audiences from Whitehorse to Oslo, and in small clubs in New York to amphitheatres in Cape Town. In 2007, her novel, Missing the Ark was published. Kidd, who graduated from Concordia’s creative writing master’s program, is based in Montreal but spent most of 2009 in a cabin on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia working on her next collection of story-poems, Hyena Subpoena. (PF)

Lion Queen, spoken word. Photo Credit: James Tworow