Katie Hale

Born in Cumbria, Katie Hale 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 has been Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Hawthornden Castle and Passa Porta (Brussels). She has recently won the Buzzwords Poetry Prize, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Ware Poetry Prize, and has twice been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. She is currently working on a full-length collection of poetry.