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About the Author

Katrina Day was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, which was one of the fifteen republics of the USSR then. Her parents, editor-in-chief of an educational magazine Gregory Sadzhaya and a journalist Isabella Elisashvili had different opinions about her upbringing. She was called Khatouna and christened as Ekatherine.

Having graduated with a Masters degree in modern languages she worked two and a half years in Central America, Costa Rica teaching English as a second language. Ended up in Britain and married Robin John Day in September 1998. Katrina Sadzhaya started to get “serious” about writing poetry in 1991. There were some poems that were written in her early days back home, but as she claims, she had torn them all.

In 1996 Katrina Sadzhaya’s poem “It Will Ache” won Editor’s Choice Award and she become a member of the International Society of Poets. The poem was published in the anthology released by the International Society of Poets, called “Between a Laugh and a Tear”.  She has been publishing poems in the poetry anthologies released by the society and winning awards ever since. These Poetry anthologies are “Light of the World”, “Woodland Echoes”, “Songs of Senses”, “The Secrets of Twilight”. In 1998 Katrina Sadzhaya was invited to Washington, United States to join one of the greatest poetry convention. She read her controversial poem “Alone” about Jesus Christ, his origins and unconditional love, in general, that we have to give each other no matter what. The poem having passed unnoticed then, later got her a place in the North American Poetry Competition 2000. The poems from Britain, normally do not participate in the North American Poetry Competition, only the selected ones are allowed.

Katrina was offered to publish her poem “In the Midsummer Sun” in the “Honoured Poets of 1998”, which was a special edition. Katrina’s poem “Do I Believe in Peace” joined other poems written by the best in this fine art to make up a huge, the world’s biggest poem about peace. Katrina’s poems achieve high appraisal from the editors and a chance to be released on the tape “The Sound of Poetry” together with the selected few.  Her poem “The Accumulative Discord” was published first time by United Press Ltd in the book “Songs in the Silence” released in 1999.  She was honoured by the Poetry.com to have published her poems on the Internet, both under the name of Katrina Sadzhaya and Katrina Day, as well as asked to submit a new poem for the Millennium Poetry Anthology.

Presently, Katrina Day lives in Reading, Berkshire, UK. She is a keen supporter of anything that goes on in her local area, which is artistically worthwhile.