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Katalina Watt is the author of Saltswept (2026, Hodderscape). They were selected for a 2025 Literature Matters Award from Royal Society of Literature, and AIR Literature UNESCO 2024 Writer in Residence for Konstkollektivet in Sweden. They were a finalist for 2023 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine as founding Audio Director for khōréō.

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Katalina is the author of Saltswept (2026, Hodderscape). They were selected for a 2025 Literature Matters Award from Royal Society of Literature, and AIR Literature UNESCO 2024 Writer in Residence for Konstkollektivet in Sweden. Their writing has been Longlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020, and awarded a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. They are published in anthologies including Unspeakable, To Root Somewhere Beautiful, and Haunted Hallways and have appeared at Edinburgh International Book Festival and Cymera Festival.

As Literature Officer at Creative Scotland, Katalina was selected for a 2023 Clore Inclusive Leaders Fellowship. 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 finalist for 2023 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Katalina also has experience in the British Book Award-winning Audio and Digital departments for Canongate and Hachette.

Katalina read 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 Society of Young Publishers Scotland and judged Scottish Book Trust’s 2023 New Writers Awards and 2024 Ignite Fellowship.

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