Katherine Allum is an award-winning fiction author. Her debut novel, The Skeleton House, won the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award. American-born, she grew up in four different states, but has strongest ties to Portland, Oregon and regional southwest Nevada. After spending several years in the UK, where she completed an MA at City, University of London, she now lives in Perth with her husband. She does her best story plotting while swimming.

Katherine Allum
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Awards
Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Emerging Western Australian Writer (Shortlisted 2025)
Fogarty Literary Award (Winner 2023)