Katie Hale

Katie Hale is a novelist and poet, based in Cumbria. Her poetry collection, White Ghosts, won a Northern Debut Award, and she is the author of two novels: The Edge of Solitude and My Name is Monster. She is a former MacDowell Fellow, and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Munster Chapbook Prize, and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize, and has held Writer in Residence positions in the US, Australia and Svalbard. Katie also mentors young writers through Writing Squad.