Kate Fox (writer)

This article is about the poet, author and comedian. For the writer and social anthropologist, see Kate Fox.

Kathryn Fox
Born (1975-05-31) 31 May 1975 (age 49)
Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Occupation(s)Writer, Poet, Comedian
Academic background
EducationLoughborough University
Alma materUniversity of Leeds (PhD)
ThesisResistance in solo stand-up performance by Northern English women marginalised on the basis of gender, class and regional identity (2018)
Academic work
Disciplineclass, gender, comedy, identity
Notable works
  • How stand-ups construct and are constructed by the 'Northernness Effect'[1]
  • Confetti and red squirrels: a stand-up autoethnography as an archive of detritus,[2]
Websitekatefox.co.uk

Kate Fox is a British poet, author and comedian,[3][4] who lives in North Yorkshire.[5] Her poetry residencies have included: Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 from 2007–14, the Yorkshire Festival, 2014, the Glastonbury Festival 2013 and the Great North Run, 2011. She also writes topical and personal pieces for Standard Issue magazine and The Journal newspaper.[6] Fox has performed her poetry on BBC One and BBC Two as well as numerous radio shows. She has supported acts including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hollie McNish, John Cooper Clarke and John Hegley and is a headline act in her own right.[7]

  1. ^ Fox, Kate (2 January 2018). "How stand-ups construct and are constructed by the 'Northernness Effect'". Comedy Studies. 9 (1): 19–35. doi:10.1080/2040610x.2018.1437164. ISSN 2040-610X. S2CID 192364461.
  2. ^ Fox, Kate (2 January 2016). "Confetti and red squirrels: a stand-up autoethnography as an archive of detritus". Comedy Studies. 7 (1): 21–37. doi:10.1080/2040610x.2016.1140478. ISSN 2040-610X. S2CID 191405088.
  3. ^ "Kate Fox". Valley Press Authors.
  4. ^ "Picture the Poet - Kate Fox". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Kate Fox. Mostly a Poet and performer of Poems. Often, not always, funny". Blog.
  6. ^ "Kate Fox". The Conversation.
  7. ^ "Short Bio". Blog.