Katie Khan's first novel, Hold Back the Stars, was published in the U.S. by Gallery (Simon & Schuster) and in the UK by Doubleday (Penguin Random House) in 2017, and translated into twenty-one languages around the world. A film of Hold Back the Stars is in the works at studio Lionsgate, to be directed by Justin Baldoni (Five Feet Apart) from a screenplay by Christy Hall (I Am Not Okay With This), produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen (Stranger Things and Arrival). The novel is about a young couple falling in space with only 90 minutes of air remaining, intercut with their love story on a future Earth.
Her second novel, The Light Between Us, about two friends separated by time travel, was published in 2018. Katie is a writer from London who also works for a major film studio on a magical British film franchise.