About Cathie

Cathie Beck is a Denver-based, award-winning journalist and creative writer. Her short stories have been published in Riverrun Literary Magazine, Glimmer Train Literary Collective, Red Dirt Publications, and Zoetrope Stories, to name a few, and in innumerable university literary periodicals and publications.

She has written for the Boulder Daily Camera, the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writers Digest. She presently contributes to a number of regional and national publications and is "The Wine Wench" columnist for ColoradoBiz Magazine (www.cobizmag.com) and KUVO radio (www.kuvo.org) in Denver, Colorado.

She is the recipient of the Louisiana Press Women’s and Denver Press Woman’s Writing Awards, the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the University of Colorado’s Dean’s Award for Writing.

As a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism, she is a frequently called-upon speaker, educator and presenter.

In 1968, she twirled the baton in the Indianapolis 500 Parade, after taking a coveted 4th place trophy in a baton twirling championship.

She has a crush on Johnny Depp.