Katharine Kilalea grew up in South Africa and was awarded an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In 2009 her debut poetry collection, One Eye'd Leigh was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Katharine Kilalea recommends
And Notre Dame is Burning (2025)
Miriam Robinson
"And Notre Dame is Burning issharp and heartbreaking, lit by epiphany and counter-epiphany."
Dead Souls (2021)
Sam Riviere
"Dead Souls is elegant, ambitious, very serious and very funny––an enlivening burst of anti-anti-intellectualism."
