My synaesthesia is no mere quirk but a self-shaking strangeness
My initial is pale pink, the month of June is cerulean blue: synaesthesia gets my senses crosswired, and makes me who I am
by Catherine Taylor
Catherine Taylor is a freelance writer and editor, and the former deputy director of the freedom of expression organisation English PEN. She writes regularly for The Guardian, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer and The Irish Times. She is the author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time (2023), which was the winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize for memoir and life writing, and the editor of The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction (2019). She lives in London, UK.
Written by Catherine Taylor