About
Katie Edwards is a writer, editor and broadcaster from Doncaster.
Her first trade book, Speaking Up: A Northern Story of Class, Language and Finding My Voice, will be published by Profile Books in February 2027.
Her work explores class, voice, misogyny, religion, popular culture and power: who gets listened to, who gets dismissed, and what it costs women to speak in public. She writes with particular interest in northern working-class experience, accent prejudice, shame, silence and the cultural rules that decide whose stories are taken seriously.
Katie is a commissioning editor at The Conversation in the UK, where she works on health and medicine. She is also co-host of Strange Health, a podcast about the strange, surprising and often misunderstood stories behind health, illness and the body.
She has written for publications including The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The i, The New Statesman and The Conversation. Her broadcasting work includes BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, BBC World News, TalkTV and Channel 5.
Before moving into journalism and trade writing, Katie was an academic at the University of Sheffield, where her work focused on religion, gender, media and popular culture.
Broadcasting
Radio
#SheToo Podcast Series
The Bible Society
Award-winning podcast series produced by Rosie Dawson.
The story of Hagar is the most well-known of the passages under consideration in this series. Hagar is the slave of Abraham and Sarah who is required to bear Abraham a son, Ishmael, as a solution to the couple’s childlessness. Usually this story is read as part of the wider story about how Abraham came to be the father of two nations, through his sons Isaac and Ishmael. Here Dr Katie Edwards seeks to read the story from the perspective of Hagar.
