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.
Updates coming soon ...
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
Poems
Newman Ensemble audio sample here
MONK arts magazine: https://monk.gallery/author/catherine/
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.
Updates coming soon ...
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
Poems
Newman Ensemble audio sample here
MONK arts magazine: https://monk.gallery/author/catherine/