Kathryn Mockler is the author five books of poetry, several short films and experimental videos, and the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
Her films and experimental videos have screened at over 60 festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival, ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, and EMAF, and most recently at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and the REELPoetryHoustonTX Festival. And they have won awards at Worldfest, Yorkton, The Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, and Euroshorts and have been broadcast on TMN, Movieola, and Bravo.
She is a TIFF Talent Lab Alumnus, a Praxis Screenwriting Fellow, and won the San Francisco Film Society Screenwriting Fellowship. She attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writers' Lab and wrote two short films for the NBC/Universal Short Dramatic Film Program.
She co-wrote the poetry chapbook Me Then You Then Me Then (Knife | Fork | Book, 2020) with Gary Barwin and she co-edited a climate anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020). Her writing has been published in Catapult, Quill & Quire, Fence, Arc Magazine, Geist, This Magazine, and others, and she runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone. She is an associate professor in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria where she teaches screenwriting and fiction.
