Dr Catherine Coldstream

Dr Catherine Coldstream is a writer, musician, and former contemplative 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 her twelve years as a ‘hermit in community’.

She is currently editing ‘William Coldstream Remembered: Portraits of a Painter’ (Sansom & Company, 2025) – a widely-sourced anthology of essays about her father – while working on a new memoir evoking an eccentric London childhood. An associate editor of MONK arts magazine, she has taught viola and piano peripatetically, theology in schools, and is in demand both as interviewer and speaker.