Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar is a writer and historian of religion based in Goa. Born in Germany, she studied Comparative Religion, Anthropology, and Indian Art History at the Free University of Berlin, where she later taught at the Institute of Comparative Religion from 1999 to 2002. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001.

An accomplished author, Katharina has held prestigious academic positions, including Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University (2001–2002) and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne (2011–2012). Her artistic and scholarly practice draws from her academic background in religious studies and anthropology.

Her current bodies of work explore the themes Women/Bodies/Goddesses and Death and Dying, engaging with questions of spirituality, identity, and human experience through text and image. She has presented her work in exhibitions such as Word, Text, Image – The Story of Art at Jaipur, Small is Big at Durbar Hall, Kochi, and Women, Bodies, Goddesses at Sunaparanta, Panaji. She has exhibited her work at Janela.