Cat Russell

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2025

Cat Russell lives in Ohio, with her high school sweetheart and their son, while writing and learning more about the craft every day. Her work has been published in print and online, and she is the author of several books of poetry and prose--most recently, The Fairytale Ends: A Tale of Gawayne and the Green Knight (April 2025). She blogs monthly, podcasts occasionally, and is often mildly serious except when she's not.

When not writing or drinking large quantities of tea, her work can be found online at her writing blog (www.catrussellwriter.wordpress.com), her Patreon page (www.patreon.org/authorcatrussell), and her Amazon author page (https://tinyurl.com/Cat-Russell-Amazon).

The Fairytale Ends: A Tale of Gawayne and the Green Knight

In 1904, Charlton Miner Lewis updated the timeless tale of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, embellishing his fantastical verse with a romance between Gawayne and his love, Lady Elfinhart. After encountering the Green Knight at Arthur’s court and embarking on an adventure, Gawayne triumphed over adversity and returned to his lady love. But what happened after the adventure ended and their real life together began?

With nods to the original tale, a dash of humor, and more than a little snark, The Fairytale Ends: A Tale of Gawayne and the Green Knight pulls the curtain back on Gawayne, his lady, and their marriage once the honeymoon is over.

Kaleidoscope: the poetry of Cat Russell

A collection and selection of poetry by Ohio-based poet, blogger, and flash fiction author Cat Russell, author of the short and flash fiction collection The Optimist's Journal of the End of Days, also from Venetian Spider Press.

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Cat Russell does it again! Her latest poetry collection, Kaleidoscope, swirls and sways through a landscape of fact and fiction, experience and fantasy, while also providing a keen lens into life and living. It whirls the reader into wonder while remaining grounded, insightful and inquisitive. Peer into this volume's eyepiece and let it take you for a spin.

-John Burroughs, U. S. Beat Poet Laureate (2022-2023) and author of Rattle and Numb

Soul Picked Clean

"Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of Soul Picked Clean, the debut poetry collection by Ohio writer Cat Russell.

""In Soul Picked Clean Cat Russell provides a thoughtful and hopeful collection of sharp-edged, personal poems that balance themes of 'cosmic coincidence' ('Dice') with close observations of daily life and family. Knitting together comfort and struggle, Russell’s poems build a sense of alienation filled with tense urgency. In poems like 'Serial Killer at the Laundromat' she brings to focus measured risks, remaining 'acutely conscious of / how alone I am”' and 'Balloon,' which imagines the growth and deflation of memory and life through 'the events / that would shape and fill me.'If 'Children see the things adults turn away from' ('2 a.m.'), they are also evident in the honest insights of Russell’s debut collection."" —EF Schraeder, author of Chapter Eleven.

Soul Picked Clean is around 100 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5"". 978-1-64092-978-4. Front cover photo by Chandra Alderman."