Kate Pullinger

She was born 1961 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal, after a year and a half.

Pullinger worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and settled in London, where she now resides.

Pullinger has been writer-in-residence at the Battersea Arts Centre, the University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (1995/96), and the Visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University (2001/03). She was Research Fellow for The trAce Online Writing Centre Arts and Humanities Research Board project Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative (2002/03). She taught on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where she was Reader in Creative Writing and New Media. She is a member of the Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) group at De Montfort, researching transliteracy. She is the Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.{{cite web|title=Weldon and Hensher head to Bath Spa|author=Allen, Katie|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/weldon-and-hensher-head-bath-spa.html|work=The Bookseller|date=28 September 2012|access-date=9 November 2012|archive-date=6 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506210245/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/weldon-and-hensher-head-bath-spa.html|url-status=dead}}

Pullinger is an atheist.Kate Pullinger, "Extremadura's Moorish tendency", The Independent, 18 November 1989, Weekend Travel, p. 49.

Pullinger's earlier books include the novels When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996), Weird Sister (1999) and A Little Stranger (2004 in Canada and 2006 in the UK), as well as the short-story collections Tiny Lies (1988) and My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelization of the film The Piano (1993) with director Jane Campion.

George Landow examined Kate Pullinger's and Talan Memmott's 2003 animated poem, Branded, in his 2006 textbook, Hypertext 3.0. He explains that this poem moves text on screen one line at a time, for a computer-driven timed reading.{{Cite book |last=Landow |first=George P. |title=Hypertext 3.0: critical theory and new media in an era of globalization |date=2006 |publisher=Johns Hopkins university press |isbn=978-0-8018-8256-2 |edition=3rd |series=Parallax |location=Baltimore (Md.) |page=91}}

Pullinger also writes for film and for the digital media. Her most recent digital works are Flight Paths (2007–), a "networked novel" created in collaboration with worldwide participants, and Inanimate Alice (2005–), a series of multimedia novels, both created with writer/artist Chris Joseph,{{cite news|last=Pauli|first=Michelle|title=Down with Alice|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/dec/07/technology.internet|work=The Guardian|access-date=21 November 2011|location=London|date=7 December 2006}}{{cite web|last=Chin|first=Yvette M.|title=DigitAlice – A Conversation with Inanimate Alice Producer Ian Harper|url=http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/digitalice-%E2%80%93-a-conversation-with-inanimate-alice-producer-ian-harper/|work=DigitalBookWorld.com|date=1 April 2011|access-date=21 November 2011|archive-date=20 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020065111/http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/digitalice-%e2%80%93-a-conversation-with-inanimate-alice-producer-ian-harper/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=PR Web|title=International Acclaim Grows for Inanimate Alice|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8974126.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119174349/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8974126.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 19, 2011|access-date=21 November 2011|date=17 November 2011}} and The Breathing Wall (2004), experimental fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and Chris Joseph.{{cite news|last=Ensslin|first=A|title=From (w)reader to breather: Cybertextual retro-intentionalisation|hdl=10242/43790|year=2007}}

Pullinger was the lead writer on the 24hr Book Project, a project to write, edit and produce a novel in 24 hours, which was managed by CompletelyNovel.com in collaboration with if:book (a book industry think tank), the Society of Young Publishers and Spread the Word (a writer development agency).{{cite news|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/98950-the-clocks-ticking---.html|title=The Clock's ticking...|date=5 October 2009|work=The Bookseller|access-date=20 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204131700/http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/98950-the-clocks-ticking---.html|archive-date=4 February 2013}}

Pullinger's digital literature work is preserved in the NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space, and Agnieszka Przybyszewska (University of Łódź) and Mariusz Pisarski describe the challenges involved in this preservation effort.{{Cite journal |last=Przybyszewska |first=Agnieszka |last2=Pisarski |first2=Mariusz |date=2024-12-16 |title=Preserving Electronic Literature: Between (Re)construction and Emulation. Space for Documentation and Preservation of Kate Pullinger’s Digital Fiction |url=https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/preserving-electronic-literature-between-re-construction-and-emulation-space-for-documentation-and-preservation-of-kate-pullingers-digital-fiction |journal=Przegląd Kulturoznawczy |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=518 |doi=10.4467/20843860PK.24.032.20875 |issn=1895-975X|doi-access=free }}

Breathe was exhibited at the British Library, 2023. File:Breathe by Kate Pullinger, exhibit at the British Library 2023.png

Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award[http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2009/ws129028646560284197.htm "Winners of 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards announced by the Canada Council for the Arts"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102234106/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2009/ws129028646560284197.htm |date=2012-01-02 }}, Montreal, 17 November 2009. for her novel The Mistress of Nothing, a fictionalized tale of Sally Naldrett, lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon, who traveled with her mistress to Egypt in Victorian times.

She received the 2021 Electronic Literature Organization's Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award for her work to bridge print and digital fiction.{{Cite web |last=Marino |first=Mark |date=2021-05-31 |title=Kate Pullinger Wins Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award – Electronic Literature Organization |url=https://eliterature.org/2021/05/kate-pullinger-wins-marjorie-c-luesebrink-career-achievement-award/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |language=en-US}}

• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=When the Monster Dies |date=1990 |publisher=Picador |isbn=978-0-330-31398-8 |oclc=877427631 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=The Piano |date=1994 |publisher=Miramax/Hyperion |isbn=978-0-7868-6121-7 |oclc=1321448902|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=The Last Time I Saw Jane |date=1997 |publisher=Phoenix |isbn=978-1-85799-864-1 |oclc=717313020 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=Weird Sister |date=2000 |publisher=Phoenix |isbn=978-0-7538-1064-4 |oclc=48238032 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=A Little Stranger |date=2007 |publisher=Serpent's Tail |isbn=978-1-85242-487-9 |oclc=254784698 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=The Mistress of Nothing |date=2014 |publisher=Anchor Canada |isbn=978-0-385-68254-1 |oclc=909084525 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=Landing Gear |date=2015 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=978-1-4767-5321-8 |oclc=911389823|author-mask=1 |language=English}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=Forest Green |date=2021 |publisher=Anchor Canada |isbn=978-0-385-68306-7 |oclc=1110578573 |language=English|author-mask=1}}

• 2005-2018. Inanimate Alice.
• 2007. A Million Penguins.

• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=Tiny Lies |date=1989 |publisher=Picador |isbn=978-0-224-02560-7 |oclc=741252252 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
• (1995). How Maxine Learned to Love her Legs: And Other Tales of Growing Up. {{ISBN|978-0-9515877-4-4}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last1=Pullinger |first1=Kate |title=My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison |date=1998 |publisher=Phoenix House |isbn=978-0-7538-0134-5 |oclc=38884343 |language=English|author-mask=1}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930061950/http://katepullinger.com/index.html Personal website]
• [https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/kate-pullinger Kate Pullinger biography] at British Council Literature
• [https://archive.today/20121223123606/http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/kate-pullinger.aspx Dr Kate Pullinger] at De Montfort University, Leicester

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