Christina Patterson

Christina Patterson joined The Independent in 2003 as deputy literary editor and is now a full-time writer and columnist. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at London's Southbank Centre, she writes on culture, politics, books, travel and the arts and does the weekly "big interview" for the Arts & Books section. Interviewees have included Martin Amis, Candace Bushnell, Werner Herzog, Philip Glass and Ian McKellen. She is an occasional contributor to magazines ranging from Time to the New Statesman, The Spectator, Psychologies and High Life.