Christie Watson is a British writer and Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of East Anglia.

She won the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary, which enabled her to take an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, from where she graduated in 2009.

Her second novel, Where Women Are Kings (2014), also won critical praise and has been widely translated.

[9] In 2018, she published a memoir, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story, which was broadcast as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018 and spent more than five months in The Sunday Times Top-Ten Bestseller list.

The first, Moral Injuries, has been published in 2024[14] and received positive reviews, including praise for best new thrillers.