KATIE M HALL is a forty-something queer writer. She was co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the 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 Muswell Press anthology Queer Life, Queer Love 3 (2025), and the Arachne Press anthologies Byway(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 recently completed 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