Kate Noakes is a Welsh Poet and short fiction writer. She has degrees in Geography, and English Literature from the University of Reading and a MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan. She has taught creative writing for Oxford Univerity. 1 She has published two books of poetry Ocean to Interior (Mighty Erudite Press, 2007) and The Wall Menders (Two Rivers Press, 2009) and has two forthcoming Cape Town (Eyewear Publishing, 2012) and I-spy and Shanty (Mulfran Press, 2013). She is an elected member of the Welsh Academi . In 2009 she won the Owen Barfield Poetry Prize.