Poet Dr Katina Michael was born in 1976, and is a senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Computer Science at the University of Wollongong (2005). She also has a Masters in Transnational Crime Prevention from the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong.
She has an industrial background in telecommunications with Nortel Networks, and, prior to that, experience consulting for Accenture and OTIS.