KATIE M HALL is a forty-something journalist and writing lesbian Londoner. She was co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the queer women focused Planet London family of websites, and contributed hundreds of articles for the LGBTQ+ community including book & film reviews, celebrity interviews, opinion pieces and features. Her writing can also be found in many issues of the UK based biggest-selling lesbian magazine, Diva.

Katie’s poems and short stories have been shortlisted for several national UK writing awards. Her poetry is included in the upcoming Queer Life, Queer Love 3 (November 2025, Muswell Press), and the Arachne Press anthologies Byways (2024) and Tymes goe by turnes (2020). Her sapphic short stories feature in various lesbian and sapphic collections, such as L Is For… (2014) and LesFic Eclectic Volume 2 (2020).

Katie is the creator and screenwriter of the first London sapphic web series, the award-winning She’s in London, and producer of the award-winning queer indie feature film Under the Influencer (2024).  

She is currently completing her PhD thesis at Kingston University London, entitled Queer as Friends: a theoretical memoir charting unconventional friendships as feminist activism.

Find out more at www.katiemhall.com or follow on Instagram @katiemargarethall