Sophia Watson hails from Chicago, Illinois, thus very familiar with the setting of Silver Lake. She has lived in Missouri as well and has explored a few caves in the Ozarks. Her knowledge of these areas is first hand. Although she writes in the cozy genre, her coziness is more along the lines of a "soft" mystery, more intrigue than blood and guts.

She is a graduate of Boston University (magna cum laude) and attended Harvard for graduate school.She now lives in n. Maine with her gray-striped cat, Oscar. She also writes under the pseudonym of Zara Brooks-Watson and her own name of Cathy Smith. Enjoy!