Catriona Silvey

Agent: Bryony Woods

Website: catrionasilvey.com

Catriona Silvey was born in Glasgow and grew up in Perthshire and Derbyshire, which left her with a strange accent and a distrust of flat places. She overcame the latter to do a BA in English at Cambridge, and spent the next few years there working in scientific publishing. After that she did a PhD in language evolution, in the hope of finding out where all these words came from in the first place.

Following stints in Chicago and back in Cambridge, she returned to Edinburgh, where she lives with her husband, children, and a very peculiar cat. When she’s not working as a researcher studying meaning in language, she writes fantasy and science fiction. Her short stories have been performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

Her debut novel, Meet Me In Another Life, was published in the US in April 2021 and the UK in July 2021. It was a #2 Waterstones bestseller, has been translated into thirteen languages, and is currently in development as a feature film with Atlas Entertainment starring Gal Gadot.

Catriona’s second novel, Love and Other Paradoxes, is set to publish in early 2025.