Kate Armstrong is a writer and avid amateur mountaineer who has climbed across the UK, Europe and the Himalaya. She has survived extremes of all kinds and come through wiser. She spent many years as a management consultant, completed a PhD on John Donne and holds a Creative Writing MFA from Birkbeck. Kate was runner up in the Bridport Memoir Award in 2025. She currently lives in London.
For creative non-fiction, see: 3AM, MIR Online, and Beyond The Mountain.
For journalism samples, see: Runner’s World; The Alpine Club (and also in print in the 2024 and 2025 Alpine Club Journal); UKClimbing; The Great Outdoors Magazine.
If you want to hear me speak you can do so here: The Resilience Rising podcast – on resilience and grief.
My writing is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.
