Writer Katie Daley has performed her monologues and word music across North America in theaters, nightclubs, ballrooms, and bistros. Her work has been featured on television and radio broadcasts and nationally recognized stages. She is a seasoned semi-finalist of four National Poetry Slams and won third place in the individual world championship at the inaugural Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

On the page, Katie’s work has appeared in various journals, magazines and anthologies, and her writing has won her three Individual Creativity Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council and a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Her most recent chapbook, Any Closer to Home, was published by Finishing Line Press in October 2023 (https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/any-closer-to-home-by-katie-daley/). She has produced two CDs: Full Blast Alive, a compilation of poetic monologues from her one-woman show of the same name; and Zaggin’ Like a Vagabond—a weaving of guitars, banjos, spoken word, and song—by Drifters Inn, the band she created with her husband.

As a teaching artist for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, she currently does community outreach in expressive and therapeutic writing.