atherine Coldstream is a writer, musician, and former Carmelite nun with degrees from Oxford, UEA, and London, Goldsmiths. She is the author of poems, interlinked personal essays, and of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun (Chatto & Windus, 2024) an account of the twelve years she spent as a ‘hermit in community’. She has taught theology and philosophy in schools, is associate editor of MONK arts magazine, and facilitates at Oxford Writing Mentors. She is in demand both as interviewer and speaker.