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Katy Regan

Writer in Residence, Writing Fellow

Royal Literary Fellow, Royal Literary Fund

BA Hons Leeds

Katy Regan is a novelist and journalist with a special interest in underrepresented voices and stories. Her latest novel How to Find Your Way Home (Pan Macmillan U.K. and Penguin U.S., 2022) is a contemporary family drama set on Canvey Island marshes and explores sibling bonds, homelessness and the power of nature. Katy was brought up in the Lancashire town of Morecambe Bay, and her fiction often returns to these atmospheric coastal edgelands and their people.

She is the author of five more novels: her first, One Thing Led to Another (Harper Collins, 2007) is based on a column she wrote for Marie Claire magazine, where she was commissioning editor.

Katy is also a features writer, focusing on real-life stories and documentary reportage. Her journalism has taken her all over the world, interviewing people about the one-child policy in China, naturists in France, female prisoners in the U.K. and communities in the Deep South.

She is an experienced long-form journalist. Her project on remembrance, Before They Were Fallen, involved interviewing families bereaved by the Afghanistan war. Their testimonies are now in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum. She is also the author of two self-help books and is currently writing a multi-generational novel set in Morecambe.

Katy is passionate about nurturing confidence in the written word. She mentors yet-to-be published novelists, and has delivered workshops on storytelling to PR companies, Age UK and Marketing students. She lives in Hertfordshire with her son when he is home from university.