Katie Goh is a writer, the First Person Editor at gal-dem and the Non-Fiction Editor at Extra Teeth literary magazine. She writes about culture and social issues for publications including i-D, the Guardian, the Independent, VICE, Huck, Nylon, Dazed and Crack. Her writing has been shortlisted for BBC Scotland and Wigtown Book Festival’s Anne Brown Essay Prize, PPA Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year Award and the University of Glasgow’s Kavya Prize. Katie became a member of the UK Critics Circle in 2020.

Katie’s short book of essays The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was published by 404 Ink in 2021. It was a Reviewer’s Choice for The Big Issue’s Independent Books of 2021 and shortlisted for the inaugural Kavya Prize in 2022. Katie was awarded funding from Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals to research and develop this book proposal. She currently lives in Edinburgh.