Kate Mascarenhas is a fiction author, born in 1980. She studied English at Oxford and Applied Psychology at Derby. Her PhD, in literary studies and psychology, was completed at Worcester. Since 2017 Kate has been a chartered psychologist. Previously she has been an advertising copywriter, bookbinder, and doll’s house maker. She lives in the English midlands with her partner. In 2018 The Psychology of Time Travel was published and her next novel, The Thief on the Winged Horse, was published in 2020.