about

Catriona Byers is a writer, photographer and historian.

Her first job, at the age of thirteen, involved washing hair at a men’s hair salon in Oxford. Since then she has worked, in no particular order, as a food stylist, tabloid editor, restaurant reviewer, recipe developer, translator, fried chicken and waffle chef, research assistant, shoe saleswoman, lifestyle manager, journalist, production assistant and copywriter. Some of these things she still does - get in touch to find out more.

She recently completed a PhD in History at King’s College London, where her thesis focused on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York, alongside research projects relating to the history of crime scene photography, haunted archives and the redevelopment of American pauper cemeteries. You can find out more about her research here.

She is currently working on her first non-fiction trade book, MORGUE, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in early 2027. Rights have so far been sold in Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, the UK and the USA.

Originally from Fife, Scotland, she can now usually be found in Paris (mostly), London (sometimes) and New York (occasionally).