CMD WELCOMES KATHERINE LEYTON

Katherine Leyton

Katherine Leyton is a nonfiction writer and poet. Her first book, ALL THE GOLD HURTS MY MOUTH, was the winner of the 2017 ReLit Award, a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award, and received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.

Katherine Leyton is a nonfiction writer and poet. Her first book, ALL THE GOLD HURTS MY MOUTH, was the winner of the 2017 ReLit Award, a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award, and received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Her nonfiction has been published in Bitch, Hazlitt, the Literary Review of Canada, and The Globe and Mail, and in 2017, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for an essay she wrote for Arc magazine about internalizing misogyny. As the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-Frame, she was featured in the 2015 documentary Al Purdy Was Here. Katherine has also worked as an editor and screenwriter. Born and raised in Toronto, she now lives in Ottawa.

Katherine is currently working on MOTHERLIKE, a memoir about the transition from independent adulthood to pregnancy and early motherhood that explores the startling ways our society marginalizes and demeans pregnant women and mothers while simultaneously exulting the idea of them. It’s also a story of love, self-doubt and the glimpses of beauty that keep us going.

Katherine is represented by Stephanie Sinclair.