Catherin Violante is a novelist, short story author, and published poet. Thanks to distance learning, Catherin is a student of The Poetry School in London, UK, but home is in Portland, Oregon, with her four dogs, Heidi, Wilma, Lucy and Pookie. A member of The Writers' Mill in Portland, with work appearing in The Writers' Mill Anthology Journal volumes 2, 4, 5, and 8, and Cirque Magazine.