Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor is the author of Apart from Ugly Duckling Presse as well as You, Me, and the Violence and Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives, which won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Taylor is a Founding Editor of Essay Press and has worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of documentary films including “The Exiles,” which won an Emmy Award. She was also a Co-Founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She studied at Cornell, Oxford and Duke University (where she received her Ph.D.), and has twice been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. She teaches at Ithaca College where she is the Co-Director, along with photographer Nicholas Muellner, of the Image-Text-Ithaca MFA Program and ITI Press.