Kathryn Morrisby is a journalist, copywriter, and total word nerd. If she’s not researching and writing about the latest social and cultural trends or creating crisp copy for small but brilliant brands, you’ll find her engrossed in clichéd Gen Y pastimes such as gardening, triathlon training, and fretting about her kids’ screen time.

People are craving comfort. Amid what can feel like a state of constant crisis – a layering of traumatic societal events – it can sometimes seem like we’ve lost a sense of scale and cohesion. In the face of this, the desire to retreat into nostalgia is more seductive than ever. 

Nostalgia Reimagined 

A freelance marketing and brand consultant, Kat McKenna specialises in young adult fiction and leads marketing campaigns for clients including World Book Day and Jacqueline Wilson.

United States

Media and Entertainment

Publishing

The Book Seller

Creative Boom

Oliver Jeffers

The Guardian

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Z Man Games

Canvas8

Words Rated

Insider Intelligence

Wattpad

Book Riot

The Big Issue

Interview with Kat McKenna conducted by author

Death, political division, and the climate crisis. Not your classic kids’ book topics. But then, 

 isn’t your classic kids’ book. Designed to bridge generation divides, can it

help people of all ages talk about important global topics by offering tactile escapism, and even a little hope?