Poet, Performer, Educator, Artist

Cat Brogan is a poet, educator, host and producer and project manager from Omagh. She has performed at festivals (Latitude, Electric Picnic, LFest), won Slams (BBC Edinburgh Fringe, Belfast Poetry Cup), been published (The Golden Shovel, Dedalus, Boshemia) and featured on BBC and RTE. Cat graduated from Goldsmiths University with an MA as a Writer/Teacher as part of the Spoken Word Education Programme which led to being a full time poet in a London Secondary school. Poetry education is the subject of her TEDx Talk and she has presented at academic conferences and published in journals. On a British Council funded programme in Malaysia, she met her partner and co-founded a LGBT social centre in Kuala Lumpur regularly programming queer cultural events. Currently based in Inishowen, she co-founded Omagh Pride in 2021.