Carol Birch (born 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic.
[1] After a period in the Waterloo area of London (which would be the setting for her first novel), she moved to County Cork, Ireland, with her first husband, an artist, taking his name Birch and turning to writing, but she returned to London, where the marriage ended.
[2] Birch and her second husband, Martin Butler, moved back to the North West in 1989.
[10] Among the working-class writers to whom Birch acknowledges a debt are the fellow Lancastrians Shelagh Delaney and Louis Golding, and the Welshman Howard Spring.
[12] Birch also teaches creative writing and contributes reviews to a number of newspapers.