Katri Skala has worked as a senior arts administrator, script editor, and literary editor in the field of new writing in Britain and the US. She edited the literary magazine Pretext and was the founding programme director of the international gathering of writers, New Writing Worlds in Norwich. For the past several years, she has mentored writers of fiction and non-fiction for the National Centre for Writing, and for private clients. She also works as an editor and writing tutor for Untold Narratives on their programme for Afghan women writers who are marginalised by conflict and community.

She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and journalism from Vassar (in the US), Cardiff, and the University of East Anglia. She has had published short stories and magazine features. A Perfect Mother (Hikari Press, 2018) is her first novel.. She has had published short stories and magazine features. A Perfect Mother is her first novel. She works as a mentor to writers in all genres and at all stages of their writing life.