PRAISE
"Katinka Kraft leaves audiences awestruck, more alert and fundamentally changed. She is a dynamic performer worth dodging highway traffic barefoot to see."
-Carol Maki, Director of March Productions
"Katinka Kraft's work is deftly sincere, yet cunningly humorous. Through her writing and performance, she digs past the root of the problem in question—whether it be issues of identity or culture—and into the sheer earth of it, clawing at the dirt with hands of love and tenderness."
-Brian McGuigan, co-founder and curator of "Cheap Wine and Poetry"
PRAISE FOR KATINKA WITH ORATRIX
“An honest blend of true triumph, that is sexy, painful, and painfully funny.”
-Sini Anderson, Artistic Director of Sister Spit
“These poems stand at the gritty crossroad of outrage and love and meet their hard truths head-on…. And they do it in a liquid quicksilver language that sings.”
-Judith Roche, former Bumbershoot Literary Arts Director
“…a poetic queerchoir…disapproving, disproving, distilling truth(s) down to their lowest common denominator(s).”
-Alix Olson, headlining artist of HBO Def Poetry Slam.
“…combines political parable with wrenchingly personal narrative, fusing themes of race, class, sex, and gender in seamless and inventive ways.”
-Nirmala Nataraj, SF Station
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