About Katherine Leyton
Born 1983. Katherine Leyton is a Canadian poet and writer.
Katherine Leyton is a Canadian poet, whose debut collection All the Gold Hurts My Mouth won the ReLit Award for poetry in 2017.
She has also served as poet-in-residence at the Al Purdy writers' retreat in Prince Edward County.
In late March 2021, her three-year-old son Jude went missing in the bush near the family cottage in Westport, Ontario. The boy was found safe three days later.
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