Kate has been writing from the age of about eight. She has had many stories broadcast on Radio 4, some repeated on the BBC's World Service and a prize-winning play broadcast on Radio Leeds. Several of her stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She has had eighteen stage plays performed around the country. The themes that catch her imagination are around love, loss, death and betrayal, and although she relishes these often grim themes there are always a few seeds of hope at the end. She is not satisfied unless every one of her characters - even in the large scale community plays that she has written - makes some kind of emotional growth, change, discovery or development during the course of the play. She was brought up in Norfolk, and the landscape of marsh land and water has played a part in some of her stories and plays. Her plays often have a spiritual dimension and Celtic spirituality and saints of Northern Britain have featured in them. She graduated from Durham University in 1968, where she met and married her husband, and they have lived in Yorkshire ever since. They raised four children, who have now produced eleven grandchildren for them. They are still there and for the last forty years they have lived just inside the northernmost tip of the Derbyshire Peak District. Much of her writing is heavily influenced by the landscape and sometimes this has almost as much impact on the plot as a character.
