Kathleen McCaul Moura is a writer, editor and researcher. She has published two novels, acclaimed by James Ellroy as a ‘stunning new voice’, and an anthology of new writing from megacities, which Mike Davis called ‘paradise and the inferno.’ She holds a Phd in Creative Writing from the internationally renowned centre of writing, the University of East Anglia, and a degree in English literature and language from Oxford University.

She trained as a journalist with the BBC, and worked as a reporter in Iraq, India, Kashmir, as well as for Al Jazeera English in Doha and London. Her non-fiction writing has appeared with The BBC, The Guardian, as well prestigious journals The London Review of Books and Granta Magazine, among many other places. She is the editor of Ilhéu, a new magazine dedicated to art and writing from the Atlantic regions, based in the Azores, where she lives with her four children and her husband.