English and Languages Faculty: Cathy Adams
After serving as an adjunct for two years, Professor Cathy Adams 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), Western Carolina University (Certificate of Professional Writing, 2004, and Pacific Lutheran University (Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, 2010). Cathy is 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, Relief Journal, 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.
Cathy teaches IS 102, English 101 and 102, Creative Writing 317, and World Literature 203.
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