Australian-born Katrin Talbot is a violist, photographer, and poet, whose collection noun’d, verb was recently released from dancing girl press. Katrin's first collection of photos and poems, In Which Miss Mabelline Is Introduced to the Honorable Dr. Suzuki, was commissioned by the Suzuki Strings of Madison; she has two other chapbooks, including Freeze-Dried Love from Finishing Line Press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, published by Parallel Press. A photo essay of Schubert’s Winterreise was published as a coffee table book and cd by the University of Wisconsin Press. Meanwhile, a song cycle based on her poetry will be premiered in Toronto later this year. Katrin was Poet-in-Residence for Sound Ensemble Wisconsin last season, was a finalist in 2009 for four national poetry prizes—one of which awarded enough prize money to fund a dairy queen run—and she has two Pushcart prize nominations sewn into her bomber jacket.