Katherine May

Katherine May is an internationally renowned writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Her hybrid memoir Wintering was a global bestseller, adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. Her most recent title, Enchantment became an instant New York Times bestseller, and The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, was adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood which she edited. She writes the popular Substack newsletter, The Clearing. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including the New York Times, teh Observer, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Aeon. She hosts the chart-topping podcast How We Live Now, and has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series. Katherine lives by the sea in Whitstable, UK, with her husband, son and pets. She loves walking, sea-swimming and cooking enormous feasts. Enchantment was published by Faber & Faber in 2023.