Escalator 2011/12 winner: Kate Worsley

I was born in Lancashire, studied English at UCL, and worked for many years in London as a national newspaper and magazine journalist, writing a non-fiction book for Conran Octopus along the way. When I moved to the east coast I started to write fiction. In 2008, soon after my third child was born, I started City University’s MA Fiction (Novels) and was lucky enough to secure Sarah Waters as my personal tutor. Having finished my first novel She Rises last year  – a transgressive 18th-century adventure – I am now represented by Véronique Baxter at David Higham Associates and at work on my second novel Foxash, which is set on a 1930s land settlement. 

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