Katy Massey

Have you heard of  Katy Massey? If not, you’re gonna! In 2003 Katy Massey moved to the North East to study. She stayed on after falling in love with the region, particularly the weather.

Katy has always been a writer, but picked up her pen with renewed vigour after finishing her MA in Media and Cultural Studies last year. "It was such as relief to write what I wanted to after all those essays and my dissertation," she says.

After a series of career misadventures Katy has been a freelance journalist for eight years and contributes a monthly money column to Cosmopolitan magazine as well as writing for the BBC's online services.

She writes poetry and imaginative non-fiction as well as short stories. She is currently attempting longer fiction and her ambition is to write a play for the stage.

Katy was recently reading with The Poetry Vandals and also did a star turn at the dogeater book launch for Joan Johnston’s new poetry collection Orange for the Sun. Katy went down a storm and will probably enjoy a whole host of other reading gigs off the back of it.