Katie Munnik is a Canadian writer and poet living in Cardiff, UK.

In 2017, she won the Borough Press Open Submission, and her debut novel The Heart Beats in Secret was a USA Today Bestseller. Her second novel The Aerialists was Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month for April 2023.

A selected writer for the Hay Festival Writers at Work Programme 2024, her prose, poetry, and creative non-fiction have been published in magazines, journals and newspapers in the UK, the USA, and Canada.

Katie Munnik is a graduate of Queen’s University, the University of St Andrews and the Humber School for Writers and teaches at Cardiff University.

She is represented by Evan Brown at Transatlantic Agency.