Mindset Mindrise

Katie Griffiths grew up in Canada, in a family originally from Northern Ireland. She is author of The Attitudes (Nine Arches Press), the prize-winning pamphlet My Shrink is Pregnant (Live Canon), and was also published in Primers Volume One (Nine Arches Press). In 2024 she won the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize. She was second in the National Poetry Competition, 2018. A member of Red Door Poets, Katie is also a singer-songwriter. She leads poetry workshops, mentors, and runs 'Riverhouse' monthly sessions of live poetry in Surrey.

‘In this enthralling and expansive collection, Katie Griffiths divines our capacity to resist the insidious, seductive promise of AI. Acknowledging its complicated attraction, she mounts a fierce defence of our embodied minds in viscerally precise language, irrepressibly inventive and alive to etymology and translation. Her poems ‘make an incision and voilà // the brain opens like a museum.’ An invitation to consider how to protect the borders of the self, and a call to arms, Mindset Mindrise is essential reading.’