Catherine Taylor

Biography

Catherine Taylor is the author of Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam) a book Library Journal called “a delightfully readable blend of scholarship, exposé, and storytelling that is likely to become a classic.” Taylor worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of documentary film projects in New York City including “The Exiles” which won an Emmy award for historical programming, and she was a Co-founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Taylor is a Founding Editor of Essay Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. Her own essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many literary journals including, The Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, Xantippe, Postmodern Culture, Quarter After Eight, and Witness. She is interested in a wide range of nonfiction forms–from documentary work and literary journalism to critical theory and lyric essays.

Areas

• Creative Nonfiction
• The Essay
• Cultural Studies
• Documentary Poetics

Degrees

• Ph.D. English, Duke University
• B.A. College Scholar in Literature and Classics, Cornell University

Work in Manuscript

• Apart (a mixed genre or lyric documentary book on South Africa and family)