Natasha Carthew
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Natasha Carthew is a Cornish working class writer and poet. She is the author of nine books, including three Young Adult novels with Bloomsbury, ALL RIVERS RUN FREE published by Quercus (2018), and SONG FOR THE FORGOTTEN for the National Trust (2020). Her latest book, BORN BETWEEN CROSSES, is a sequence of prose-poetry (Hypatia Publications, 2021), and she contributed to HAG: Forgotten Folk Tales (Virago Press, 2020) and WOMEN ON NATURE (Unbound, 2021).
Natasha has written extensively on nature and socio-economics, and frequently discusses how authentic rural working class writing is represented, for several publications and programmes including Writers & Artists Yearbook, The Royal Society of Authors Journal, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The Dark Mountain Project, The Bookseller, Book Brunch, The Big Issue and The Economist.
Natasha is the founder of the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers, and Artistic Director of the Working Class Writers Festival, in partnership with Bristol Ideas.
Natasha’s memoir, UNDERCURRENT, was published by Hodder in April 2023.
‘Carthew’s prose has a startling ferocity.’ — The Telegraph
‘Carthew delivers a gripping story in intense, powerful prose.’ — International Business Times
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