Katie Hale

Born in Cumbria, Katie is the author of a novel, My Name is Monster (Canongate, 2019), and two poetry pamphlets: Breaking the Surface (Flipped Eye, 2017) and Assembly Instructions (Southword Editions, 2019), which won the Munster Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. In 2019, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, and was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. She has recently won the Buzzwords Poetry Prize, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Ware Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's International Poetry Prize and the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Review, The North and Interpreter's House, among others. In 2017, Katie was mentored by Penguin Random House on their inaugural WriteNow scheme. Her musical, The Inevitable Quiet of the Crash, co-written with composer Stephen Hyde, premiered at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2017.