Katie May is better known as Betty Herbert, author of the award-winning blog and memoir, The 52 Seductions (Headline UK and 8 other languages). She has also published fiction in her own name: Burning Out (Snowbooks, 2009) and Ghosts & Their Usess (Urban Fox, 2007).

She has written for The Times, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Aeon, amongst others. She began her literary career as a resident writer for Tate Britain' s education programme, and is currently Programme Director for Creative Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University. In her spare time, she cooks, mixes demon cocktails and walks a great deal. She lives in Whitstable with her husband and son.