Writer, teacher, poet, viola player, singer,  tea drinker, occasional editor. Interests in theology, philosophy, literature, music, and the visual arts. Studied at the universities of Oxford, London, and UEA. French and German speaker, lover of Europe, ambivalently Roman Catholic,  Londoner-in-exile, and associate editor of MONK arts magazine. 

Author of ​Cloistered: My Years as a Nun - fruit of a long slow process writing about grief, grace, and my spiritually formative years in a secluded religious community. 
www.penguin.co.uk/books/454197/cloistered-by-coldstream-catherine/9781784745059

The North American edition is also now out, and has a very different cover! Darker tones and a hint of mystery: 
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250323514

The book is a memoir, lightly anonymised (all proper names have been changed) in order to protect the privacy and identity of those concerned, set at Akenside Priory in the wilds of Northumberland in the 1990s.

For enquiries, please contact my agent, Patrick Walsh at PEW Literary


​​Some examples of older work, to 2020, a mix of interviews, essays, and the odd poem.
Faith 
Music
Literature
Personal essays
Newman Ensemble audio sample here
MONK arts magazine: https://monk.gallery/author/catherine/

Poetry and short stories, pre-2018: scattered abroad in various places, including:
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Blackwells-Poetry-No-1-by-Various-A-R-Thompson-editor/9786000097530
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Lookout-by-Tamar-Yoseloff-editor/9780995625006
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Room-anthology-poetry-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B013UWYO7O
https://patricianpress.com/book/patrician-press-anthology-of-poems-and-short-stories/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roof-Red-Tiles-Other-Stories/dp/1907090401

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