Kate Garner (born Kathryn Mary Garner; 9 July 1954) is an English photographer, fine artist and singer.Born in Wigan, Lancashire to Anne Philomena Shannon and George Sandeman Garner, a sailor and factory worker, Garner was expelled from high school at the age of 16 and became a runaway who joined The Children Of God. To escape the grasp of the cult she hitchhiked from London through Eastern Europe to India in 1970, where she lived for a year as a traveller before being located by her parents.