About Cate

Cate Touryan writes short stories, creative nonfiction, and novels. She holds an MA in English and a Juris Doctorate, is a freelance editor, and teaches academic and technical writing. 

Her childhood aspiration to spin straw into gold fizzled as she realized how steep the cost—trading in her firstborn. So she did a more socially acceptable thing. She began to write, spinning the ordinary into story.

When not writing, she enjoys anything that will give her a view but that keeps her feet on the ground and video chats her daughters often, who—perhaps fearing she might indeed trade them—live in a
time zone 9 hours ahead. 

Cate lives on the central coast of California with her husband, her Yorkie, and a rafter of turkeys—as in both a whole bunch of them and in the rafters. She has yet to spin them into story, but when she does, she’ll make sure it’s gold.

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