Biography
Katharine Norman originally trained as a composer and computer music specialist, obtaining her PhD from Princeton in 1993. Until 2003 she was an academic, most recently at at Goldsmiths, University of London. She then emigrated to Canada for four years, to a small island off the coast of British Columbia, where she switched to writing and composition, and for a while had a 'day job' as a a freelance editor and writer for encyclopedias, high school texts, US business books, and UK leisure and gardening publications (producing limpid prose on English gardens while watching deer go past one way, bald eagles the other). She also became a West Coast Canadian (kayaks, beer, very bad French) and learned some more programming skills (code, wine, very bad language). In 2004 she published Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music (Ashgate) which, as her publisher realized too late, is not really about music. She is now back in England, keeping sanity at bay by working on her Flash skills and her first new media novel.
She has a part-time job as managing editor of an academic journal.
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