Kate Pullinger's books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, and, most recently, Weird Sister, as well as the short story collections, My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison and Tiny Lies.  She co-wrote the novel of the film 'The Piano' with director Jane Campion. Her new novel, A Little Stranger, will appear sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Kate Pullinger also writes for film and television; her feature-length screenplay ‘Lily’ is currently in development. She has other screen projects on the boil, but she has learned not to hold her breath.

Have a look at Branded, an introductory fragment of an electronic fiction created by Kate Pullinger and web artist Talan Memmott.  Turn on the sound on your computer.  Kate Pullinger and Talan Memmott are currently collaborating with web pioneer and software inventor Stefan Schemat on an Arts Council England funded full-length version of the piece, called 'The Breathing Wall'.

Kate Pullinger 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 of not studying philosophy and literature, then spent a year working in a copper mine in the Yukon, northern Canada, where she crushed rocks and saved money. She spent that money travelling for six months and ended up in London, England, where she has been ever since.

Kate Pullinger has lectured and taught widely. She has been writer-in-residence in many places, including Battersea Arts Centre, HMP Gartree, The University of Reading, HMP Maidstone and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1995/96.  She was 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 looked at new forms of electronic narrative, 2002/03.   She teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College as well as online for the TrAce Online Writing School.

Kate Pullinger is currently the Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow.