Kat Hill is a writer, researcher and curator based in Scotland. Her work focuses on community, belonging and environment, and explores the nature of our material, creative and collective existence, and human and non-human encounters. Her practice involves a combination of creative non-fiction writing, archive, audio and image. Rooted in her skills as a writer and historian, she interweaves her experiences with material from archives, museums and books to construct complex and incisive narratives. She engages in archival and curatorial work, collating materials from museums, repositories and collections across the world, digital, physical and material.

She is the author of the prize-winning book, Baptism, Brotherhood, and Belief: Anabaptism and Lutheranism, 1525-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2015) and her second book, Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter was released with William Collins in Spring 2024. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. 

She is currently working on her third book entitled Endlings: A Journey into the Last of Things.

Kat has a PhD from the University of Oxford (2011) and she has received numerous grants and fellowships, including awards from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the IAS Princeton and IASH at Edinburgh University. She lectured at Oxford, UEA and Birkbeck College for ten years before leaving London for a life in Scotland to write and research. 

She is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and a European champion.