Katherine Webber was born in Southern California.

She studied Chinese literature and language at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis.

She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Hawaii and Atlanta. She currently lives in London with her husband, where she works for the reading charity BookTrust.

Travel, books and eating out are her favourite indulgences. She also spends far too much time on Twitter. .

Wing Jones is her first novel.