Jul 21

Jul 21 Kathryn Rossati (Kathryn Wells)

Author Kathryn Rossati

Biography

Kathryn Rossati is a neurodivergent (AuDHD) and disabled novelist and poet. Their focus leans mostly to middle grade and young adult fiction, with a strong interest in fantasy and speculative, though they also enjoy delving into historical fiction and writing for a wide range of age groups. For poetry, they write about nature, neurodiversity, disability, and love. They’re also an aspiring watercolour/gouache artist.

Kathryn has held numerous creative writing workshops for the Isle of Wight Story Festival, and also takes part in their schools programme, Stories in Schools. Alongside in person events, Kathryn creates creative writing workshop videos for the Isle of Wight Story Festival’s YouTube channel, as well as longer workshop and author talk videos on their own YouTube channel.

Currently, they live on the Isle of Wight, UK, with their husband, parrot and budgie, and (when their body allows) love going for woodland strolls and getting lost in nature.

Kathryn is available for school visits, creative writing workshops, and author talks, both in person and online. They can be contacted via email, which is listed on their website:

www.kathrynrossati.co.uk

Fun facts:

Their first four books were published under the pen name Kathryn Wells, as they were worried readers wouldn’t be able to pronounce/spell ‘Rossati’. As time went on, they realised that people can learn quite quickly and that plenty of established authors have last names with unusual spellings, so every book of theirs since then has been published under Kathryn Rossati.

They adore everything about The Legend of Zelda series, and when they were little, even dressed up as Link for a fancy dress party.

They have Synesthesia, most notably with weekdays - Mondays are pink, Tuesdays are dark blue, Wednesdays are green, Thursdays are indigo, Fridays are Sapphire blue, Saturdays are yellow and Sundays are golden/burnt yellow.

Their favourite number is 7, which coincidentally is green in their mind, one of their favourite colours. The others are blue and purple.

They studied bellydance for over ten years.

They have a whole shelf of Diana Wynne Jones books, and a tattoo which is a quote from the book Charmed Life.

They can play the ocarina.

They have an Amazon parrot who won't hesitate to alert them to how late it is if they’ve overslept. (He also demands monkey nuts and is a harsh critic to their work!)