Meet The Reviewers

Kat Skarbek is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Despite her obnoxiously precocious beginnings as a 10 year old playwright (over-confidently putting on a ghostly school play that she wrote, directed and acted in), her most recently leanings have been toward short stories with folk horror leanings and creative non-fiction. She is currently incubating an idea for a novel of historical fantasy fiction which, frankly, terrifies the bejesus out of her, so that’s got to be a good sign. Kat likes to think of herself as a bibliophile but her husband says she can call it any fancy name she wants, it’s basically book hoarding, and where the hell is he going to find space for them all anyway? Although she is an ‘all genres’ reading and writing type of gal, at the moment she is devouring mythological and fairy-tale retellings from such authors Natalie Haynes and Angela Carter and genuinely unnerving horror from the terrifying minds of Adam Neville and T. Kingfisher. Aside from writing and being the mother of a brace of character-building teenagers, she spends her time as a Midlife and Mindset coach, teaching women how to make their midlife the most fulfilling and inspiring part of life so far. Kat is very chatty in person but then feels guilty about talking too much. She is a restless nomad in love with family travel, gin, swearing and knitting, though not necessarily in that order.