Kate Russell

Kate Russell (born 22 May 1968) is an English technology journalist, author and speaker.

Biography Russell was born on 22 May 1968, in Harpenden. She appeared on children's television in the show Fish and Chips on Nickelodeon in 1995, but moved on to present on technology a few years later, fronting a show called Chips with Everything, on The Computer Channel (later renamed to .tv).

She writes a column called Tech Traveller in National Geographic Traveler magazine. She has previously written columns for Web User,

She self-published her first short story, Taken (Scary Shorts Book 1), as a trial of Kindle Direct Publishing on 5 August 2011.

Russell's second book and first novel Elite: Mostly Harmless (2014), a story set in the Universe of the Elite computer games,

A third book and second novel A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery, a children's fantasy, was published in 2016. An audiobook version read by Charles Collingwood was the subject of another successful Kickstarter campaign.

Awards

In the 2015 UK Blog Awards, she won the individual digital and technology category.

In 2016, she was voted the 13th most influential woman in UK IT by Computer Weekly.