Katrina Serwe

Katrina Serwe, PhD, worked as a therapist, professor, and researcher in the field of occupational therapy. She started writing poetry after a transcendent midlife crisis brought her back to her love of literature, art, and nature. Her poems have been featured in a variety of publications such as The Blue Heron review, The Solitary Plover, Bramble, Portage Magazine, and Scrawl Place. She was the first-place winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Writers Association's Jade Ring contest for poetry and the second-place winner of the 2025 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Muse Prize. Serwe's current project is foraging poems on Wisconsin's Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Her chapbook of trail poems, First Steps, was released into the wild in 2025 with Brain Mill Press.