Katie Munnik is a Canadian writer and poet living in Cardiff, UK.
In 2017, she won the Borough Press Open Submission, and her debut novel The Heart Beats in Secret was a USA Today Bestseller. Her second novel The Aerialists was Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month for April 2023.
Katie was a selected writer for the Hay Festival Writers at Work Programme 2024 and has recently been named as a 2027 Berton House Resident by the Writers’ Trust. Her prose, poetry, and creative non-fiction have been published in magazines, journals, anthologies and newspapers in the UK, the USA, and Canada.
Katie Munnik is a graduate of Queen’s University, the University of St Andrews and the Humber School for Writers and teaches at Cardiff University.
She is represented by Evan Brown at Transatlantic Agency.
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