KATHERINE STANSFIELD is a multi-genre novelist and poet who grew up on Bodmin Moor and now lives in Cardiff. Her Cornish Mysteries crime series is set in the 1840s and features unorthodox detective duo Anna Drake and Shilly Williams. The pair investigate crimes based on real events in Cornish history and involve a good dash of local folklore – think ‘Sherlock Holmes meets the X Files meets Daphne du Maurier’. The first book in the series, Falling Creatures, was a Book of the Month in The Times and was shortlisted for the Winston Graham Memorial Prize.
Katherine is also one half of the writing partnership DK Fields, with her partner David Towsey. Farewell to the Liar, the final book in their Tales of Fenest trilogy, was published by Head of Zeus in 2021.
She has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing and has taught the craft for many years and for many different organisations, working with writers just getting started and those who have book-length projects under way. Katherine is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University’s MA in Creative Writing, as well as a Writing Fellow at the University of South Wales, the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University, and a mentor for Literature Wales, the Arts Council-funded writer development body.
- Areas of expertise: crime; historical fiction; fantasy; general commercial fiction; short stories
- Location: Cardiff
- Possible meeting place: Chapter Arts Centre
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