Bio

Katrina Fox is a freelance journalist originally from London. She has worked as a journalist since 1997, both on staff at various publications and as a freelancer. In 2001 she moved to Sydney, where she currently resides.

Katrina writes predominantly for Evolution Publishing - the largest publisher of gay and lesbian titles across Australia, and official media partner of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. She writes news, features and a regular weekly column, Keeping Abreast, for Evolution's SX News, Sydney's leading weekly arts, news and entertainment magazine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community and her work also appears in its sister publications, MCV in Melbourne and Queensland Pride.

Until July 2007 she wrote regular feature articles for LOTL , an Australian lesbian magazine, for several years, before becoming editor of CHERRIE in August 2007. CHERRIE is Evolution's monthly magazine for young 'not-so-straight' women in Australia. It launched with an October 2007 issue and is the only free-to-street full-colour gloss magazine to feature fashion, entertainment, pop culture and political & social issues.

Katrina's work has also appeared in popular Australian women's fashion magazine YEN with articles on gender diversity and a four-page special feature on women who risk their lives and freedom to save animals.

Katrina's specialist subjects are social justice, sex, sexuality (gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer issues), sex and gender diversity (transgender, intersex etc), human rights, animal rights, veganism, environment, feminism, paganism and alternative lifestyles.

Katrina has also worked for various trade publications, as a writer and sub-editor, over the years in the areas of employment, training & education, human resources, social housing, building & construction, and advertising, marketing & media.

Over the years her work has appeared in a variety of magazines internationally, including Natural Health & Vegetarian Life (formerly New Vegetarian & Natural Health), Nexus, The Stage and Time Out London, as well as dyke porn, art & culture magazine Slit, UK lesbian magazine Diva, and the US's best-selling national lesbian magazine, Curve.

Katrina has interviewed a number of international performers, artists, writers and celebrities, including Chrissie Hynde, Jackie Collins, Lily Tomlin, Missy Higgins, Martina Navratilova, Olympia Dukakis, Camille Paglia, Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Peter Singer, Penny Arcade, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Betty Dodson, Annie Sprinkle, Sophie B Hawkins, Leisha Hailey (The L Word), Karen Finley, Lady Bunny, Peaches, Michelle Tea, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Nestle and Claire McNab.

Books: Katrina is the co-author of Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference (1997), a non-fiction book on transsexualism, and the editor of Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations (1998), Investigating Stage Hypnosis (1999) and Self-Hypnosis for Life: Mind, Body & Spiritual Excellence (2000), all published by Extraordinary People Press. Click here to go to their site for more details on these titles and to order them. She also co-edited, with Tracie O'Keefe, an anthology of real-life stories by sex and gender diverse people. Entitled Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity, this book was published by Jossey Bass, a division of John Wiley & Co in June 2003. Please visit www.josseybass.com or www.amazon.com for more information and to order online.

Katrina is also the co-editor with Tracie O'Keefe of Trans People in Love, an anthology of real-life stories by transsexual/transsexed people's experiences of being in love and in a relationship, to be published in July 2008 in the US by Routlege, a division of Taylor & Francis, and the rest of the world shortly after. Available for pre-order from Amazon.

For queries regarding writing assignments or sub-editing shifts, please email me in the first instance.

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