Catherine Taylor is a writer, editor, and educator who works in a wide range of non-fiction forms—from documentary and literary journalism to hybrid-genre texts. She is the author of You, Me, and the Violence (Mad Creek 2017), on puppets, drones, and power, and of Apart (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012), a mixed-genre memoir and political history that combines prose, poetry, cultural theory, and found texts from South African archives. Her first book, Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam), won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Her essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in The Believer, the Seneca Review, The Colorado Review, Witness, and elsewhere. Taylor was a co-founder and producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival and is a founding editor of Essay Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. She is currently Co-Director of Image Text Ithaca MFA and Press, supporting work at the intersection of writing and photography. Taylor received her Ph.D. from Duke University and is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College.
