Kate Wilkinson

Kate Wilkinson grew up in Sussex and started her career in Theatre in Education in Manchester famously playing the part of a large intestine in a science show. She moved to London and joined BBC Schools Radio and her first commission was for a long-running series of stories for the pre-school radio programme Listening Corner. She then spent fifteen years at BBC Radio 4 as a reporter and producer working primarily on arts programmes, literary features and readings such as on Book at Bedtime and Book of the Week. She has continued to work freelance for the last fifteen years producing a vast array of ‘sounds’ still for the BBC, and most recently in readings for Radio 4 and audiobooks for Penguin and Bloomsbury.
It was a joy for the most part, but she wanted to get back to writing stories rather than recording them and so she applied for the MA in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University in 2015. Edie and The Box of Flits is her first book and is the first of two Edie stories. Kate lives in London with her partner Ian who is a news journalist and their two boys who are now 18 and 20 and sadly no longer keen on being read bedtime stories.