Katharina Johanna Ferner is a poet and performer based in Salzburg. She writes prose, poetry, children's literature and is part of the editorial staff for the literary magazine &Radieschen, the Austrian Dialect Magazin "Morgenschtean" and "Mosaik". 2017 writer-in-residence in Hausach, Germany. 2019 peot-in-residence, Schriftstellerhaus Stuttgart.