Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and digital works. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University and also acts as a mentor to new and emerging writers.

Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Kate dropped out of McGill University after a year and a half of not studying philosophy and literature. She then spent a year working in a copper mind in the Yukon where she crushed rocks and saved money. She spent that money travelling and ended up in London, England, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Kate's novels include The Mistress of Nothing, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, A Little Stranger and The Last Time I Saw Jane, as well as the ghost tale, Weird Sister, and the erotic feminist vampire novel Where Does Kissing End? Her new novel, Landing Gear, will be published in Spring 2014.

Kate's digital works include Inanimate Alice, an episodic online multimedia novel and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel.

You can find out more about Kate and her work at www.katepullinger.com