Katie Hale

Based in Cumbria, Katie Hale is the author of two novels: My Name is Monster and The Edge of Solitude: a New Scientist Book of the Month, and awarded a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction. Katie also won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts, and she is a former MacDowell Fellow, whose work has taken her from Antarctica to the Arctic. She has won the Palette Poetry Prize, the Munster Chapbook Prize, and the Aesthetica Prize, and her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She also mentors young writers as a Core Team Member of the Writing Squad.

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