About

Katie Aliféris (ah-lee-FEH-ree) is a writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid work from San Francisco, California. She has been a featured performer at local and international literary series and events, including Club Chicxulub, Eves at The Beat, LitCrawl, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, Mutiny Radio, 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 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  Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery and Green Apple Books on the Park. You can listen to the fool[ishly optimistic] playlist here.

Katie also makes lyric-less synthesizer music under the stage name, Katie Kat. A respite from writing, Katie Kat's sounds are centered around the beats-per-minute of the human heart in various stages of joy, elation, and ecstasy. Katie Kat uses the Korg Volca beats, kick, bass, Donner Circle looper, and various body massagers (*wink wink*) to make their tunes. All improvised in the moment. All vibes. Check out loop samples, show dates, and more here.

Photo above by Alexandra Kostoulas.

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

Video below courtesy of Quiet Lightning.