Kate Horsley

Kate Horsley

Kate Horsley’s poems and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including Storyglossia, Erbacce, Seventh Quarry Magazine, Bliss and Best British Crime Stories and her work has won awards - Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition, Words on the Street and Adoption Matters - and been shortlisted for Asham, Templar, Longworth Editors, Fine Line and Ravenglass Press.  Her first novel, The Monster’s Wife, is due out in paperback and eBook with Barbican Press in June 2014 and her writing is represented by Jenny Brown Associates.  After gaining her B.A. in English Literature from Oxford, Kate won a scholarship to do her PhD at Harvard, where she held a one-year lectureship before returning to the UK to take the Creative Writing M.A. at Lancaster. She has taught literature and writing on both sides of the Atlantic, in a small school outside Kampala and in refugee camps in Gulu and Lira, Northern Uganda. She lives in Manchester.

Visit Kate’s Website: http://www.katehorsley.co.uk/