 Cathy James
After serving as an adjunct for two years, Cathy joined the Montreat family full-time in August of 2007 as Coordinator of Freshman Composition. She is a graduate of the State University of West Georgia (B.A., 1987; M.A., 1994) and Western Carolina University (Certificate of Professional Writing, 2004). Cathy became an Anglican in 1998 and is now a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Asheville where she serves as a member of the Altar Guild.
Her background includes fourteen years as an arts administrator followed by four years as a professional writer. Her short stories and essays have been published in Utne, Maelstrom, The Philosophical Mother, Ghoti Magazine, Victoria Press, Heliotrope, and WNCWoman among others. Some of her writing awards include the Mona Schreiber Award for Fiction, a National League of Pen Women’s Soul-Making Literary Prize, and the best novel award in the Virginia-Highlands Creative Writing Festival. Cathy’s short stories and essays have aired on Georgia Peachstate Public Radio and on Spindale’s public radio network across the south. One of those stories, “A Virgin Mary of Our Very Own,” won a National Public Radio News Director’s award. Most recently she recorded a series of short stories to be aired in 2008 on Seattle, Washington’s public radio show, River and Sound Review.
Cathy teaches IS 102, English 101, 102 and World Literature 203. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is working on her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington where she is pursuing her special interest, humor theory in novel and short story writing. |