Kate Peridot is an author of both fiction and nonfiction children’s stories who lives with her family in the south of France. She has worked as a brand manager for food companies, a publicity officer for charities, and a freelance writer for magazines. Kate studied creative writing at The London School of Journalism, Curtis Brown Creative, and as a member of SCBWI.

In 2014, her children’s story, The Elephant Carnival, won a Walker Books Animal Stories competition for 4- to 7-year-olds. In 2015 she won the Winchester Festival, First Pages of a Novel award for a YA concept.

Her debut nonfiction Caring Conservationists will be published by Walker Books in 2022.