About

Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a poet from San Francisco, California whose work often focuses on honoring heritage, life with a chronic illness/disability, and uplifting The Matriarchy. 

She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including Eves at The Beat, LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, North Beach First Fridays at City Lights Books, 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. 

Her work has been published in various anthologies, journals, and websites, including 9 Muses News, The Cerurove, 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 first book of poetry, fool[ishly optimistic], is now available from Nomadic Press: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/foolishlyoptimistic

You can watch the release party for fool[ishly optimistic] here: https://www.facebook.com/NomadicPress/videos/650395146237405/

and listen to the fool[ishly optimistic] playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0XNxxcKR-yswOjcfdzCCf9K4GzGAf2Vn

Photo above by Alexandra Kostoulas.

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

Video below courtesy of Quiet Lightning.