Katie Edwards

Biography

Katie Edwards is a writer, editor and broadcaster from Mexborough, South Yorkshire. Her memoir, Speaking Up: A Northern Story of Class, Language and Finding My Voice, will be published by Profile Books on 18 February 2027. It explores class, language, misogyny and the long, complicated business of finding your voice.

Katie is Commissioning Editor for Health and Medicine at The Conversation UK. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, New Statesman, The i and The Independent. She co-hosts Strange Health, winner of Best Health & Wellbeing Podcast at the 2026 Publisher Podcast Awards. She has presented programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, including the award-winning 2018 Lent Talk ‘The Silence of the Lamb’, which she wrote and presented.

Katie’s PhD focused on Eve in popular culture, which means she has spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about how an unnamed fruit became an apple and why women have been blamed for it ever since. Her earlier academic book, Admen and Eve: The Bible in Advertising, examined how advertising reinvented and recycled the biblical Eve.

Twitter: @KatieBEdwards
Website: www.KatieBEdwards.com