Kate Armstrong
BIO
Biography
Kate Armstrong is the award-winning author of her memoir The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College’s First Female Cadet Speaks Out published in 2019 and named as winner of the 2020 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for best book on women’s history and a finalist for the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction. She served thirteen years in the military as a Logistics Officer. She later worked for two decades in the corporate world of electricity trading before fulfilling her dream to become a writer. Armstrong is an alumna of several nonfiction residency programs at Banff Centre for the Arts and Sage Hill Writing. Armstrong is currently at work on her first novel.
ADDRESS
City: Nelson,
Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
kate@katearmstrong.ca
GENRE
Nonfiction and Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Year
2019
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for best book on women’s history
Year
2020
Name
Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction Finalist
Year
2020
LINKS
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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