Who Am I?
My name is Katy Coope (or KT to silly internet people) and I’m a 25 year old artist/author/webdesigner/teacher based in England. I was born in Derbyshire, and went to went to the university in Hull for 4 years, where I got a first class BA Hons in English Literature and Philosophy, and an MA in Contemporary Literature and Film.
I’ve been building websites since I was a wee teenager, and had my first book published at 16. Since then I’ve done 2 more, with the latest, ‘How to Make Manga Characters’ published by Collins and nominated for the 2009 Society of Authors Educational Writers prize. I’m a member of ‘Connecting Youth Culture’, and the youth Trad arts gang ‘Shooting Roots’. I’ve taught at libraries, literature festivals and folk festivals up and down the country. Check out the work pages for more examples of what I do.
What do I like?
Reading, writing, drawing, coding, singing. I love comics, both manga and western, and books as a whole: especially things with metafictional, philosophical or otherwise slightly bizarre tendencies. My favourite genres are SF, crime fiction and urban fantasy/mythic realism/whatever you want to call it where normal life collides with the weird. I love music, film, philosophy, language and computer games.
Some of my favourite creators include (in no particular order): Satoshi Kon, Neal Stephenson, Michael Marshall Smith, Iain (M) Banks, Hiroaki Samura, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, The Coen Brothers and Naoki Urasawa.
Anything Else?
I may also be a horrible tea and coffee geek, and have a thing for funky headwear. Maybe.