Kate Taylor is a staff writer at the Globe and Mail where she currently serves as visual art critic as well as writing about film and cultural policy.  She has previously worked as the Globe’s film critic and its theatre critic, and is still the only woman to have held those posts. Her arts journalism has been nominated three times for the National Newspaper Award, which she won in 2016.

Kate is also the author of three novels; including her most recent, Serial Monogamy. Her debut novel, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean region) and the Toronto Book Award in 2004. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, was nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award and won Kingston Reads: The Battle of the Books in 2011. You can follow Kate on Twitter @thatkatetaylor