Catherine Cho

Catherine Cho is a literary agent and the founder of Paper Literary. She is the author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness, which was a New York Times' Editor's Choice and shortlisted for the Sunday Times' Young Writer of the Year Award.

Her debut novel,The Devoted will be published in Summer 2026 by Washington Square Press (Simon & Schuster) in the US and by 4th Estate (HarperCollins) in the UK.

Originally from Kentucky, Catherine lives in London with her husband and two children.

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' - NIGELLA LAWSON

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
A NEW YORK TIMES' EDITOR'S CHOICE
*Observer Book of the Week*
*A Guardian Memoir of the Year 2020*
*Harper's Bazaar 10 Women Who Will Shape What You Watch, See and Read in 2020*

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'Striking and original' -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times

'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking' -- Daisy Johnson

Veers away from being a heart-warming tale of triumph over trauma; it lays out, with frightening clarity, the spiralling pressures of new motherhood and the unvarnished reality of mental breakdown ― Guardian, Best Autobiography and Memoir of 2020

A brilliantly frightening memoir about Cho's two weeks on the psychiatric ward, elegantly interwoven with tales from her past -- Lara Feigel, Guardian

Feels like an important piece of reportage about the condition as well as a gripping personal story -- Sebastian Faulks ― Spectator, Books of the Year
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