Katherine Leyton's first book collection of poetry, All the Gold Hurts My Mouth, will be published by Goose Lane Editions in March 2016. Her poems and non-fiction have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Edinburgh Review, The Globe and Mail, Bitch and This Magazine, among others. In the summer of 2014 she was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-Frame in Ameliasburgh, Ontario. A native of Toronto, she recently relocated to Ottawa.