Short Bio
Kathryn Mockler is the author of four books of poetry and six short films. She is the Founder and Editor of Watch Your Head, Canada Editor of Joyland Magazine, Publisher of The Rusty Toque from 2011-2017, and she teaches creative writing at Western University. She has a poetry chapbook written in collaboration with Gary Barwin forthcoming from Knife | Fork | Book (2020) and her debut collection of stories forthcoming from Book*hug (2022). She is working on a TV series pilot called Yardbird.
Long Bio
Kathryn Mockler is a writer, screenwriter, and poet. She is the author of the poetry books Some Theories (ST Press, 2017), The Purpose Pitch (Mansfield Press, 2015), The Saddest Place on Earth (DC Books, 2012) and Onion Man (Tightrope Books, 2011). She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and her BA in Honours English and Creative Writing from Concordia University.
Her writing has been published in Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Butter, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lemon Hound, Found Press, and Geist. She has six short films produced to date.
In 2005, she attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writers' Lab and wrote two short films for the NBC/Universal Short Dramatic Film Program. Her work has been broadcast on TMN, Movieola, and Bravo and has screened at festivals such as the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series, Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival, Worldfest, Cinequest, and EMAF. Her films are distributed by Ouat Media, V-tape, and the Canadian Film Centre.
She is the Founder and Editor of Watch Your Head, an anthology of creative works devoted to climate justice and the climate crisis, Canada Editor of Joyland Magazine, Publisher of The Rusty Toque from 2011-2017. She teaches creative writing at Western University and is a script analyst for Canadian film funding agencies.
She has a poetry chapbook written in collaboration with Gary Barwin forthcoming from Knife | Fork | Book (2020) and her debut collection of stories forthcoming from Book*hug (2022). She is working on a TV series pilot called Yardbird.
Her writing has been published in Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Butter, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lemon Hound, Found Press, and Geist. She has six short films produced to date.
In 2005, she attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writers' Lab and wrote two short films for the NBC/Universal Short Dramatic Film Program. Her work has been broadcast on TMN, Movieola, and Bravo and has screened at festivals such as the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series, Toronto International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival, Worldfest, Cinequest, and EMAF. Her films are distributed by Ouat Media, V-tape, and the Canadian Film Centre.
She is the Founder and Editor of Watch Your Head, an anthology of creative works devoted to climate justice and the climate crisis, Canada Editor of Joyland Magazine, Publisher of The Rusty Toque from 2011-2017. She teaches creative writing at Western University and is a script analyst for Canadian film funding agencies.
She has a poetry chapbook written in collaboration with Gary Barwin forthcoming from Knife | Fork | Book (2020) and her debut collection of stories forthcoming from Book*hug (2022). She is working on a TV series pilot called Yardbird.
