Kathryn Hummel is a poet and short-story writer who has also published critical work.
She holds an Honours degree in English and Gender Studies from the University of Adelaide (awarded in 2006 for a dissertation titled 'Deliciously in Between: Gender Transgression and Conservatism in Celluloid Gay Best Friendship') and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of South Australia (awarded in 2012 for a dissertation entitled 'The Women Alone: Details of Bangladesh Life and Adda: A Narrative Ethnography', with an accompanying exegesis entitled 'Thinking About Writing About "The Women Alone"').
Hummel has worked in the United States as a columnist for PopMatters: A Journal of Contemporary Culture (Chicago) and in Australia as artist-in-residence/cafe-poet-in-residence at the Forever Now project (an Aphids project), the Reading Room, and Australian Poetry (all Melbourne).
In 2019, she was longlisted for the Experimental Nonfiction Prize for 'Jhor'.