Katie is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Illustration course. She has previously taught on courses at Norwich University of the Arts, Falmouth University and University of the Creative Arts.

She is a research-driven illustrator and artist whose interests engage with feminist and queer histories and self-publishing practices. Katie produces illustration works, publications and visual essays as part of commissions, residencies and exhibitions.

Katie has exhibited extensively and spoken at international symposia, her research has been published in Turn the Page: Collected Essays 2018, Orlando journal and the Journal of Illustration. In 2020 she established the press Lap Books, which seeks to explore and expand the discipline of illustration through interdisciplinary practice.