Kathleen Winter (born 1960)^[1] is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.^[2]

Born in Bill Quay, near Newcastle in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street^[3] before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. John's.^[3] Her debut short story collection, boYs, was published in 2007 and won that year's Winterset Award and Metcalf-Rooke Award.^[2]

Her novel Annabel was published in 2010, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. It was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,^[4] the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.^[5] It held the distinction of being the only novel to make the short list of all three awards in 2010.^[5] In 2011 it was shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.^[6] In 2014 it was chosen for the Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by actress Sarah Gadon.

A second book of short stories, The Freedom in American Songs, was released in 2014, along with a nonfiction book entitled Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage. Boundless was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.^[7]

She was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

She lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband, Jean. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.^[2]

• Where Is Mario? (1987)
• The Road Along the Shore - An Island Shore Journal (1991)
• The Necklace of Occasional Dreams (1996)
• boYs (2007)
• Annabel (2010)
• The Freedom in American Songs (2014)
• Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (2014)
• Lost in September (2017)