Kate Wiseman

Kate Wiseman is an English tutor born in Oxford. The first in her working-class family to go to university, she graduated with a First in English and Creative Writing. She didn’t start trying to achieve her ambition of becoming a published writer until she was 50. 

Her series of Gangster School novels were shortlisted for several awards and have been published in 4 countries. Since then, she has written several other novels for youn adults. Her debut adult novel, The Red Tunic, won the Eyelands Award for Historical Fiction in 2020. The following year, her historical fiction novel, The Grinning Throat, won the Eyelands Award for Children’s Writing. 

A licensed mudlark, Kate's ambition is to find an intact Bellarmine jug. She lives in Chichester.