Kate Horsley (UK author)
Kate Horsley is the author of two novels, The American Girl[1] and The Monster's Wife.[2] Most of her short and long fiction, including The American Girl, has been within the crime fiction genre, although her début novel, The Monster's Wife, is historical gothic fiction.[3] Horsley is a co-editor (with her mother, Lee Horsley) of crime fiction review site crimeculture.com.
Early life[edit]
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]
Career[edit]
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 one of the Scottish Orkney Islands 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] She teaches on the Creative Writing MA at the University of Hull.
Awards[edit]
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]
Bibliography[edit]
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)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "'This Summer, Girls in Titles and Girls in Peril', The New York Times, 26 May 2016".
- ^ a b "Alistair Munro, 'Kate Horsley 'Found Frankenstein's Bride in Orkney', The Scotsman, 19 October 2014".
- ^ a b "Lucy Walton-Lange, 'Exclusive interview with Kate Horsley', Female First, 16 September 2014".
- ^ a b c "University of Chester, Department of English, Profile for Kate Horsley". Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ^ "'University of Chester lecturer nominated for book award', Chester Chronicle, October 2014".
- ^ "'Scottish book award honour for local gothic novelist Kate', Lancaster Evening Post, 03 November 2014".
- ^ "The Saltire Society".
- ^ "'London Book Fair Briefcase 2015', BookBrunch, 07 April 2015".
- ^ "'Book review (Fiction): 'The American Girl', Richmond Times-Dispatch, 6 August 2016".
- ^ "'Hot Reads for Late Summer ', Parade, 9 August 2016".
- ^ "'Charity win for local poet', Lancaster Evening Post, 18 January 2011".