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 is currently doing a PhD at King’s College London on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York, alongside research projects relating to the history of crime scene photography, and the redevelopment of American pauper cemeteries. You can find out more about her research here.

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