Katherine Rundell is an award-winning author, screenwriter, presenter, and academic. Her books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide, including the bestselling children’s novels ROOFTOPPERS, THE EXPLORER and THE WOLF WILDER. Her most recent novel IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 NYT Bestseller, receiving universal critical acclaim and winning Waterstones 2023 Book of the Year Award. In 2024, Katherine was awarded ‘Author of the Year’ and ‘Children’s Fiction Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards.

Further books include the critically acclaimed SUPER-INFINITE, winner of the highly prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize, and Sunday Times Bestsellers THE GOLDEN MOLE and WHY YOU SHOULD READ CHILDREN’S BOOKS, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE SO OLD AND WISE.

Katherine’s work has seen her shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and awarded the Costa Children’s Book Award, Blue Peter Book Award, Waterstones Book of the Year, and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, amongst others. As a journalist, she contributes regularly to The London Review of Books, The Guardian and The Times. Her work as a presenter for television includes ABDUCTED for the BBC.

As a screenwriter, Katherine is currently in development on several feature projects, including with Working Title, Heyday Films and StudioCanal.

In 2023, she established her production company Impossible Films, through which she develops film, TV and theatre projects based on her own works. In association with Open Book Productions and Impossible Films, Katherine is adapting for the screen Eva Ibbotson's acclaimed children's classic ONE DOG AND HIS BOY.

She was the youngest ever female fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She currently serves as a fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford.