About
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Katalina Watt is an author and arts consultant with ten years experience in the book industry. Their writing is represented by Underline, was Longlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020, and awarded a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. As founding Audio Director for khōréō, they won 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Fiction Podcast and were finalist for 2023 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.
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Katalina is an author and arts consultant with ten years experience in the book industry. Their writing is represented by Underline, was Longlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020, and awarded a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. They are published in anthologies including Hauned Voices, Unspeakable, To Root Somewhere Beautiful, and Haunted Hallways and have appeared at Edinburgh International Book Festival and Cymera Festival.
Katalina is Literature Officer at Creative Scotland and previously worked in British Book Award-winning Audio and Digital department for Canongate and Hachette. As founding Audio Director for khōréō , a speculative magazine elevating immigrant and diaspora authors, they won 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Fiction Podcast; and were 2023 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Semiprozine.
Katalina was the 2021 Next Level Awardee for Literature Alliance Scotland and selected for 2023 Clore Inclusive Leaders Fellowship. They have worked in event programming and studied English Literature at the University of Glasgow and Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. They are a member of Codex and Society of Authors and have mentored for the Society of Young Publishers Scotland and judged Scottish Book Trust’s 2023 New Writers Awards and 2024 Ignite Fellowship.
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Pronouns: She/They (interchangeable); Salutation: Mx
