| Katy Gardner | |
| Occupation: | Author, Anthropologist |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Cambridge University, London School of Economics |
| Notableworks: | Losing Gemma |
Katy Gardner (born 1964) is a British author and anthropologist, best known for her novel Losing Gemma, which was turned into a two-part miniseries for ITV1 in 2006.
Gardner is a graduate of Cambridge University who undertook her doctoral research at the London School of Economics. As well as being the author of four novels, she was for some years a Professor of Social Anthropology at Sussex University.
In 2013,[1] Gardner returned to the LSE as a Professor of Anthropology.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.[3]