Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School. She is the author of Singleholic (2009), To Miss with Love (2011), and editor of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way (2016). She is also the editor of a new book Michaela: The Power of Culture available at John Catt Educational publications. Birbalsingh is the host of a blog, To Miss with Love, where she writes about the education system. In 2017 she was included by Anthony Seldon in his list of the 20 most influential figures in British education, and in 2019 she was awarded the Contrarian Prize.