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Kate Innes was born in London and lived and worked in America and Zimbabwe. She is now based in Shropshire, and it is the history and natural beauty of this area that provides inspiration for both her fiction and poetry.
She originally trained as an archaeologist and a teacher, and then worked as a Museum Education Officer around the Midlands, writing poetry in her spare time. After the arrival of her children, Kate began work on her medieval novel 'The Errant Hours' which was published in 2015 and became Book One of The Arrowsmith Trilogy.
The Historical Novel Society selected 'The Errant Hours' as an 'Editor's Choice', and it was added to the reading list of the Medieval Studies Department at Bangor University. It is one of Book Riot's 'One Hundred Must Read Medieval Novels'.
Book Two of the Arrowsmith Trilogy, 'All the Winding World', is set in 1294 during the Anglo-French War. It was published in 2018 and followed by Book Three, 'Wild Labyrinth', in 2021. 'Wild Labyrinth' was inspired by the ancient Mappa Mundi (cloth of the world) in Hereford Cathedral and the destruction of the Order of the Knights Templar in 1307.
Kate has been writing and performing poetry for many years, usually with a particular focus on animals, art and the natural world. Her poem 'Flocks of Words' won first prize in the 'Imagined Worlds' Competition held by the Friends of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Her first collection, also called 'Flocks of Words', was published in 2017 and many of these poems form part of a performance with the acoustic music group 'Whalebone'. 'Flocks of Words' was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award in 2018.
In 2021 Kate Innes's first children's book, 'Greencoats', was published. Set in Birmingham and the West Midlands of England in 1940, it is a historical fantasy inspired by woodland folklore, in which a brave evacuee faces the peculiar dangers of the countryside during the Birmingham Blitz. It was Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award Children's Category in 2022.
Kate runs writing workshops, gives illustrated talks, works collaboratively with communities and undertakes commissions and residencies.
www.kateinneswriter.com
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