Catherine Taylor Author & Editor

Catherine Taylor was born in Waikato, New Zealand and grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire from the age of three. She studied English and Philosophy at Cardiff University and has worked in the book industry since 1992, for, variously, the British Library, Microsoft Encarta, Amazon, The Folio Society (publisher 2002-2013) and most recently as the deputy director of the literature and freedom of expression charity, English PEN (2014-2017). As a freelance, she was commissioning editor for Picador Classics and managed the launch PR for Charco Press, plus a year's maternity cover PR for And Other Stories publishers. Catherine is a book critic and features writer for Guardian Review (she wrote its debut fiction column from 2007-2013), New Statesman, FT Life & Arts, The Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Irish Times, Prospect and the i. She is co-founder of the Brixton Review of Books, a non-profit literary quarterly, and editor of The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction (Comma Press, 2019) which was chosen as the Big City Read 2020 by Sheffield Libraries.
The Stirrings is her first book.