Katie Hale

Based in Cumbria,Katie Halewon a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection,White Ghosts(Nine Arches, 2023). Katie is a former MacDowell Fellow and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Munster Chapbook Prize and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her debut novel,My Name Is Monster, was published in 2019. She won a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction in 2022 to work onThe Edge of Solitude. @halekatie | @katiescribbles | halekatie.com