To all the little girls, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Cathleen Allyn Conway is a creative writing PhD student at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she is also a graduate trainee tutor. She is a Gothicist and Sylvia Plath scholar who has presented her research in the US, UK, and mainland Europe.

She is the author of Static Cling (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and All the Twists of the Tongue (Grey Book Press, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies in the UK, US, and Australia.

As a journalist, her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sun, the Financial Times, Bitch the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Telegraph. She has extensive experience as a sub-editor and graphic designer in business, finance and defence titles, as well as copyediting socioeconomic policy and PhD dissertations.

Cat is also a fully qualified teacher of secondary English and has taught KS3-KS5 in inner London schools. And she played bass and sang in a band called The Kissing Time.

Originally from Chicago, she lives in London with her partner and son. 
Find her on Twitter and Instagram @CatAllynC.