Katy Rogers is a British-born children’s writer of Italian heritage who now lives by the sea in regional Tasmania with her family and two elderly (and very cheeky) rescue cats.
Her first full-time job was at Penguin Books, which felt like being allowed backstage in the world she had been staring at since childhood. Since then she has worked in bookshops and libraries around the world, recommending books and accumulating more of them than her bookshelves can hold.
Katy has spent much of her life moving between places, asking questions about how the world works. Her travels have led her into some rather unusual jobs, including teaching people how to fly broomsticks at a real, lived-in castle (which turns out to be a very good source of story ideas), working on film sets (like Downton Abbey), and handling Bronze Age swords in archival collections, confirming a long-held suspicion that real life is often stranger than fiction.
As a neurodivergent writer and mum, she is especially interested in stories about belonging, identity, and the many different ways children experience the world. She hopes her books will help young readers feel seen, understood, and free to be wonderfully themselves.
In 2025 she was awarded the Island Magazine Tasmanian Writers Mentorship, working with CBCA award-winning author Johanna Bell. Her picture book The Lost Thoughts, inspired by her lived neurodivergent experience, was shortlisted for the 2026 MidnightSun Publishing Picture Book Prize. Her middle-grade fantasy led to her selection as a New & Emerging Writer at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her non-fiction writing for adults appears in Forty South Magazine and other literary publications.
She holds a Master of Creative Writing and a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Writing, and continues to develop her craft through workshops and industry programs.
When she isn’t writing, Katy can usually be found swimming in the sea, taking photographs, or exploring the coastline with her son in search of interesting birds, shells, and other small discoveries. At home, her two elderly rescue cats supervise the writing process.
