Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972) is a British poet and short story writer.
She was born in Hertfordshire and graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in Creative Writing.
She has also experimented with playwriting, and her first radio play Poetry for Beginners, a comic drama set on a creative writing residential course, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008.
She lives in London, England, and teaches creative writing at the Poetry School and Morley College.