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Cat Abenstein (she/her) is a nueroqueer white settler creating in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 (Regina, SK). She’s a spoken word artist, writer, and arts administrator where she is witness to the connection, community, and identity found through stories. Since 2012, Cat has taken her work to local, provincial, and national stages, founded and coached nationally competing youth poetry slam teams, organized, hosted, and facilitated dozens of spoken words events in Saskatchewan with organizations such as the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’ (prior to her employment as their Program Manager), Creative City Centre, Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Common Weal Community Arts, Regina Public Library, Regina Open Door Society, The Dunlop Art Gallery, The Artesian, and more. Cat is multiple-time poetry slam winner and has published poetry, creative nonfiction, and horror fiction and her poetry has been shortlisted for the 2026 Foster Poetry Prize with CV2. Cat is a lyricist and rapper for the experimental hip hop group, None Shall Sleep Tonight and a member of several writing groups. When she’s not consuming a book in any of its formats (yes, audiobooks are reading), she’s dreaming about the ways words weave us all together. She lives with her wife and two cats in a house older than all of their ages combined.