Katie Goh

Genres: Irish Writing | Non-Fiction | Professional Development

Katie Goh is a writer and editor. Foreign Fruit, her first work of narrative non-fiction, won Scotland’s 2025 National Book Award for Debut Non-Fiction and her book of essays The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was shortlisted for the 2022 Kavya Prize. Her award-nominated essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including Port, the GuardianGutterWasafiri, i-DDazed and gal-dem, and she is an editor for Extra Teeth literary magazine. Katie’s hybrid memoir Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange was published by Canongate in May 2025. She grew up in the north of Ireland and lives in Edinburgh. 

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