Katie Lowe is a contemporary literary fiction author from Worcester, UK. She is best known for her critically acclaimed novel "The Furies," which was published in 2019 in the UK, US, and eight other territories. The novel, which explores themes of witchcraft and murder in a British private school in the 1990s, received positive reviews from several prestigious publications, including The Times, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus, who described it as an "elegant, pitch-perfect coming-of-age story."\n \nBefore becoming a published author, Lowe gained prominence through her blog "Fat Girl Ph.D.", which she started in 2012. The blog, which focused on feminism, body image, and health, quickly gained a large following, with more than 100,000 users within months. It was while writing her Ph.D. thesis that Lowe began to blog as Fat Girl PhD, using the platform to analyze her experiences of self-image and weight loss away from the rigors of academic writing. The new perspectives and challenges she gained from her readers' real-life experiences helped inform "The Furies," which she submitted to several publishers, eventually securing a six-figure deal with Harper Fiction in the UK and St. Martin’s Press in North America.
Lowe is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, where she earned a BA(Hons) in English and an MPhil in Literature & Modernity. In 2019, she began work on her Ph.D., focusing on female rage in literary modernism and contemporary women's writing. Her second novel, "Possession" (US) or "The Murder of Graham Catton" (UK), was published in 2021 and follows a woman whose husband's murder a decade ago becomes the subject of a true crime podcast, which threatens to exonerate the killer and make her the prime suspect. With no memory of the night of her husband's death, Hannah is forced to relive their marriage through the podcast, one episode at a time, questioning whether she could have been responsible for his murder.