Kathryn Evans is the award winning author of  More of Me. Kathryn is the first  YA author  ever to win the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award. More of Me also won the 2017 SCBWI Crystal Kite award for UK and Ireland, was nominated for the 2017 Carnegie Medal and several regional awards and is being translated into multiple languages.

An accomplished public speaker with a background in theatre,  Kathryn is also a woman who likes to be busy. As well as writing YA, she flirts with poetry,  fences competitively, bellydances for fun, runs a strawberry farm with her husband on the South Coast of England and volunteers as Co-Regional Advisor for the SCBWI British Isles .  Kathryn has two children who are mostly grown up and two cats and an ancient Labrador who are mostly not.

Kathryn believes you can like pink and still be fierce. She’s prepared to prove it too, that’s her below, in the pink mask (obviously.)