Kate Pullinger

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Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Kate Pullinger's books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, and 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, was published in Canada in October 2004 and in the UK in January, 2006, by Serpent's Tail.

Kate Pullinger also writes for film and for the digital media. Her most recent digital work is www.inanimatealice.com, a multimedia graphic novel in episodes. She is also currently involved in a new project Flight Paths - a project aimed at creating a networked novel, on and through the Internet.

The Breathing Wall is an experimental fiction made wit...more Kate Pullinger's books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, and 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, was published in Canada in October 2004 and in the UK in January, 2006, by Serpent's Tail.

Kate Pullinger also writes for film and for the digital media. Her most recent digital work is www.inanimatealice.com, a multimedia graphic novel in episodes. She is also currently involved in a new project Flight Paths - a project aimed at creating a networked novel, on and through the Internet.

The Breathing Wall is an experimental fiction made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and babel in 2004.

Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she teaches on the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media that she helped set up.

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 traveling 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, The University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1995/96 and 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. From 2001-2007 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.She currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media; this degree began with its first intake of students in the autumn of 2006 - Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media.

Kate Pullinger is represented in the UK by Rachel Calder at The Sayle Literary Agencyand in Canada and the US by Anne McDermid of Anne McDermid and Associates.(less)

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Average rating: 3.58 · 1,883 ratings · 368 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Mistress Of Nothing 3.52 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Weird Sister 3.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Little Stranger 3.00 avg rating — 36 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Mistress of Nothing 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Where Does Kissing End? 2.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	The Last Time I Saw Jane 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	My Life As A Girl In A Men's Prison 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shoe Fly Baby: Asham Award Short Story Collection 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Tiny Lies 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Harlot Red: Prize-Winning Short Stories by Women by Kate Pullinger (Editor), Carole Buchan (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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