Kaite Welsh

Kaite Welsh is a highly accomplished author, critic, and journalist who currently resides in Scotland. She has a Master's degree in Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change and has previously worked as the Literature Officer at Creative Scotland. In addition to her work as a writer, Welsh is also the Books Editor at DIVA, which is the United Kingdom's largest lifestyle magazine for LGBT women. She is also a guest lecturer on Creative Writing at universities across the United Kingdom.

Welsh is perhaps best known for her novel "The Wages of Sin," a feminist historical crime novel set in Victorian Edinburgh. The novel, which was published in 2017 by Pegasus Books in the US and Headline/Tinder Press in the UK, is the first in a series featuring medical student, fallen woman, and amateur sleuth Sarah Gilchrist. Two further books in the series are due for release in 2018 and 2019.

In addition to her work as a novelist, Welsh has also had her fiction featured in several anthologies and writes a regular column on LGBT issues for the Daily Telegraph. She is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and has been shortlisted for several awards for her writing, including the Scottish New Writers Award, the Moniack Mhor Bridge Award, the Cheshire Prize for Fiction, and the Spectrum Award for short fiction. Welsh is represented by Laura Macdougall at Tibor Jones & Associates. She lives in Edinburgh with her wife, three cats, and a vast collection of books.