ABOUT

Australian-born Katrin Talbot is a poet, photographer, and violist, based in Madison, Wisconsin. This combination of lives makes for interesting days, and she wears many hats, including a swim cap daily.

Katrin’s collection The Devil Orders A Latte was just released from Fernwood Press, The Square Footage of Awe is forthcoming from Kelsay Books and Falling Asleep at the Circus and The Waiting Room for the Imperfect Alibis were released from Turning Point Books and Kelsay Books, respectively. She has been a finalist for the Yellowwood Poetry Prize, Artsmith Literary Contest, the Bridge Poetry Prize and Phoebe’s Greg Grummer Prize and has seven chapbooks, two Pushcart Prize nominations and quite a few chickens. 

Her collaborative poetry ranges from menu/music/poetry, art installations, museum programs, maple syrup labels, theatre performances, trombone recitals and a recent favorite taproom performance, A Secular Humanist and a Poet Walk Into a Bar.

Her photography has appeared in The New York Times and has won and been a finalist in national competitions and has appeared in a few New York City galleries. Her coffeetable book, Schubert’s Winterreise - A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song is published by the University of Wisconsin Press and won a Best of the Best of University Presses Award. Her music-related photography has been used by the the Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Lincoln Center, and has appeared in many newspapers, magazines and literary journals. She photographs for Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe and Wormfarm Institute’s Fermentation Fest and Farm/Art DTour.

Katrin is assistant principal violist in the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and plays frequently in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she’s performed with the Pro Arte Quartet, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, the Red Hot Lava Chamber Music Festival, and the Oakwood Chamber Players. She has appeared on many recordings of chamber music and teaches violin, viola and chamber music.

Her dirty little secret is that she has a Masters in Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin-Madison.