Cat Treadgold has been a publisher and editor, a classical singer, an Equity actress, a coordinator in Newsweek's External Relations Department, a secretary at Siemens AG, a voice teacher at Shoreline Community College, a receptionist at a major recording studio, a cater-waiter with Glorious Foods, a restaurant hostess, and a coat-check girl at a fancy New York nightclub.Cat has an AB cum laude in German Literature from Princeton University, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Washington, and a certificate in Technical Writing and Editing from the University of Washington.She was once semi-fluent in French, German, and Italian and occasionally attempts to revive those languages.Thank goodness she's good with computers (for a digital immigrant) and learned to touch type in high school.Two of her unpublished novels made it to the finals in their categories (mystery and romance) in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Annual Contest.Three of her one-hour adaptations of operas (original translations and dialogue) were performed by Shoreline students while she was a teacher there.She and her husband Jeff reside in Washington during its drier months and Arizona during its cooler ones.For more information, go to www.CatTreadgold.com.
