Katherine Atkinson is a writer and educator. Her fiction has been published in Pree, The Caribbean Writer, SX Salon, Callaloo and by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. She is recipient of the 2006 Saint Lucia National Arts Festival prize for Literature, and winner of the 2007 Word Alive performance poetry competition.

Katherine studied Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and graduated with an MFA in 2015. Her play, Requiem for a Badjohn, was selected for a staged reading at the Brave New PlayRites Festival 2013 in Vancouver, Canada, and was the official selection of the 2017 Saint Lucia National Arts Festival. She currently works in international development.