Catarine Hancock is a 23-year-old poet and opera singer from Lexington, Kentucky. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky and is currently earning her Master of Music in Voice degree at Indiana University. Aside from music, poetry is her other great love. Having been a bookworm and writer all her life, her passion for poetry began at the age of 13, and shortly afterward, she began sharing her writing online. Over the next 9 years, her platform has grown to an audience of over 300,000. She is the author of four poetry collections: "shades of lovers" (2020), "sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you" (2021), and "i gave myself the world" (January 2023), all published with Central Avenue Publishing, and "sprout: selected poems," self-published in 2022. When she is not singing or writing, Catarine can be found curled up with a good fantasy novel, wandering the aisles of the local bookstore, or adding a weird décor item she found at the Goodwill to her already too-cluttered apartment.