About

Hailing from San Francisco, California, Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of various genres.

Preferring the opportunity to engage with an audience over the silent reception of print publication, Katie has performed her work at over fifty literary events, including Club Chicxulub, Eves at The Beat, Kitchen Table, LitCrawl, Literary Speakeasy, Lyrics & Dirges, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, MoonDrop Productions, North Beach First Fridays at City Lights Books, Open Pages: A Word Arts Show on Mutiny Radio, Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake, the San Francisco State University Center for Modern Greek Studies, VelRo’s Global Voices: A Celebration of Translation and International Creative Writing, and Voz Sin Tinta. Photos from select performances are available here. 

Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including 9 Muses News, Lucent Dreaming, the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day, and sPARKLE & bLINK. It has also been set to music and commissioned by composers, conductors, businesses, individuals, and organizations.

Katie’s book of poetry, FOOL[ISHLY OPTIMISTIC], was published by Nomadic Press in February of 2022. It is now out of print but may be found at select San Francisco bookstores, including Green Apple Books on the Park. Listen to the FOOL[ISHLY OPTIMISTIC] playlist here.

She is currently writing fantasy fiction. Story progress and other details may be found here. 

Photo above by Jim Aliferis.

Author portrait on home page by Arty Johnstone, courtesy of Nomadic Press. 

Video below courtesy of Litquake.