Short Bio
Kate Armstrong is the award-winning author of her memoir The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College’s First Female Cadet Speaks Out published in 2019. She was recently named as winner of the 2020 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award for best book on women’s history and as a finalist for the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction.
Armstrong served thirteen years in the military as a Logistics Officer and later worked for two decades in the corporate world of electricity trading, before she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer. Armstrong is an alumna of several nonfiction residency programs at Banff Centre for the Arts and Sage Hill Writing.
She lives in the mountains near Nelson B.C. with her husband, Rick, and their three black labs.
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