Catherine Taylor was born in Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, and grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Formerly publisher at The Folio Society and deputy director of English PEN, she is now a freelance writer, critic, and editor. Her essays have appeared in Granta, Aeon, and the collection Trauma: Art and Mental Health (Dodo Ink, 2021). She edited The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction (Comma Press, 2019), chosen as the 2020 Big City Read by Sheffield Libraries. She lives in London. This is her first book.
