Kate Horsley (UK author)

The child of academics, Horsley had an unconventional upbringing and was educated at home for parts of her childhood.[3] She studied English literature at Oxford University and at the age of 21, she moved to Boston to take up a scholarship at Harvard where she studied Medieval Literature. She lectured at Harvard for a year before returning to the UK.[4]

Horsley's poems and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies[5] including The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime.[4]

Her first novel, The Monster's Wife, was published by Barbican Press in September 2014.[6] A sequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the novel is set on an island in the Scottish Orkneys and narrated from the perspective of the girl Victor Frankenstein transformed into a bride for his monster.[7]

Her second novel, The American Girl, was published by William Morrow in August 2016.[1][8][9][10]

In 2014, Horsley was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year (Saltire) Award for The Monster’s Wife.[2] She has previously won awards for her work from Sentinel Literary Quarterly and Adoption Matters Northwest[11] and been shortlisted for an Asham award for short fiction and a Ravenglass Poetry Press Prize.[4]

Novels

• The American Girl. (William Morrow, 2016, ISBN 978-0062438515)
• The Monster's Wife. (Barbican Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1909954052)

Short Stories

• 'Kissing Hitler'. Even Birds Are Chained To The Sky and Other Tales (The Fine Line, 2011, ISBN 978-0956761057)
• 'Jungle Boogie'. The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9 (Robinson Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1780330945)
• 'Tin Valentine'. Dark Valentine Magazine, June 2011
• 'Star’s Jar'. The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 (Robinson Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1849011976 )
• 'Musooli'. Momaya Annual Review (Momaya Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0615172767)

Poetry

• 'Paper Bullets' and other poems, Bliss Anthology (Templar, 2011, ISBN 978-1906285173)
• ‘Port-au-Prince’ and other poems, The Ravenglass Poetry Press Anthology, (The Ravenglass Poetry Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0956539540)
• 'Rules for Looking After Ian', winning competition entry, Lancashire Adoption Matters, 2011
• ‘A Patch of Grass’ and other poems, Erbacce Magazine, 2011
• ‘Eleonora of Toledo laughs at a pantomime dildo’, Sentinel Literary Quarterly (winner), Sentinel Champions 5, 2011

Articles

• 'Interrogations of Society in Contemporary African Crime Writing'. (Crime Across Cultures, Issue 13.1 of Moving Worlds, Spring 2013)
• 'Storyboarding and Storytelling: Literacy and the Short Story'. (Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Issue 2, Spring 2012)
• 'Radiophonics'. With Graham Mort. (Writing in Education, Spring 2008)
• 'Learning Italian: Serial Killers Abroad in the Novels of Highsmith and Harris'. With Lee Horsley. (University of Delaware Press, Monash Romance Studies Series, 2008)
• 'Body Language: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction'. With Lee Horsley. (Paradoxa, Summer 2006)
• 'Mères Fatales: Maternal Guilt in the Noir Crime Novel'. With Lee Horsley. (Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 45.2, Summer 1999)

• Kate Horsley's website
• Crimeculture