Kate Pullinger

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Kate Pullinger is a Canadian-born novelist and author of digital fiction. She was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal after a year and a half, then worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and eventually settled in London, where she currently resides.

Pullinger's books include the novels When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996) and Weird Sister (1999), as well as the short story collections, Tiny Lies (1988) and My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelization of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. Her new novel, A Little Stranger, was published in Canada in October, 2004 and in the UK in January, 2006, by Serpent's Tail.

Pullinger also writes for film and for the digital media. Her most recent digital works are Inanimate Alice (2005-), a series of multimedia novels created with writer/artist Chris Joseph (babel), and The Breathing Wall (2004), an experimental fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and babel.

Kate Pullinger has lectured and taught widely. She has been writer-in-residence at the Battersea Arts Centre, the University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1995/96 and the Visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 2001/03. She was Research Fellow for The trAce Online Writing Centre Arts and Humanities Research Board project, Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative, 2002/03. She currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK where she is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media. She is also a member of the Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) group at De Montfort researching transliteracy. She is currently the Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow.