Katie Hale

Katie Hale

Based in Cumbria, Katie Hale won 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 on The Edge of Solitude.

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The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale cover

The Edge of Solitude

Katie Hale

My Name Is Monster by Katie Hale cover

My Name Is Monster

Katie Hale

“I do not know how she has survived until now. I do not know how I have survived either, come to think of it. I have just kept going. I have paid the right price. I have continued to live. Now, we will survive together. I will be her Mother, and she will be my Monster.”

My Name Is Monster

Katie Hale