Catherine Gammon is author of the novels China Blue, Sorrow and Isabel Out of the Rain, and the story collection Beauty and the Beast. Her novel The Martyrs, The Lovers is forthcoming in March 2023. Catherine's fiction has appeared in literary magazines for many years, including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Cinncinnati Review, and The New England Review. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others. A Soto Zen priest, Catherine was ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2005, at Green Dragon Temple / San Francisco Zen Center. Before Zen training, Catherine taught in the MFA program of the University of Pittsburgh, and she lives in Pittsburgh again, with her garden and her cat.
