I’ve been writing about beer, wine, cider, non-alcoholic drinks and food since 2018, and in my first year of being published I won the Young Beer Writer of the Year Silver award at the Guild of Beer Writer’s Awards. My newsletter The Gulp was awarded Silver in the Best Short-Form Beer Writing category at the 2024 British Guild of Beer Writers awards.

My self-designed zine A Place To Be was published in 2025 by Pellicle.

Boak & Bailey say: “Katie is the best at writing about working class food. She gives it dignity, takes it seriously, and doesn’t treat it as the starting point for stereotypes and wallowing.”

David Jesudason says: “Katie is a great mind when it comes to meditative drinking and inclusion”

Matthew Curtis says: “Katie is a very special writer. She has this uncanny ability to conjure poetic majesty in topics that some may find mundane…she makes eating spam sound like enjoying a delectable, three-course meal. That Katie’s viewpoint is grounded in her working class roots is arguably what makes her ability to tackle subjects like these so potent.”

I am a drinks professional, working in hospitality my whole working life and formerly running Corto, a bar in Clitheroe with my husband Tom.

I also present beer and wine tasting events, and run food and drink pairing events and classes.