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About Katherine May Katherine
took up writing in 2003. Her short stories and poems have been widely
published in anthologies and she reads regularly in Kent and London. In
2005 she won the Folkestone Literary Festival Short Story Prize, and was
a runner up in the Killie Writer of the Year Prize. She has received
commissions from the Rochester Art Gallery and the RSPB. Her first collection of short stories, Ghosts & their Uses, was published in 2006 by Urban Fox Press. In
2007 she released her first chapbook of poetry, A Diary of Slow
Progress, written to accompany the Crosscurrents exhibition at the
Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable. Katherine
originally trained as a teacher, and has worked as a writer in education
for several years, for organisations including Tate Britain, the
National Gallery, the City of London Festival and Creative Partnerships.
More recently, she has begun to instigate and manage her own
cultural projects. With the support of Arts Council South East, she is
currently setting up a new type of literary festival, which will explore
the ways that narrative is used by different art forms. The first event
will take place in 2009. Having recently completed her first novel, Burning Out, Katherine is now working on her second. In 2007, she received an Arts Council grant to research this. She lives in Whitstable, Kent with her husband and cat.
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