Catherine has been writing poetry on and off since childhood, and has many of her poems published in anthologies and small magazines. She also tutors in creative writing at a local college and runs a private group based in Stratford. She is part of openmindwriting.com that offers workshops for all kinds of groups. Catherine finished her degree in Creative Writing [Birmingham University] in 2004. It was hard work but developed her writing. She is currently working on a sequence of autobiographical poems based loosely on her childhood in the Lake District. In her spare time she finds walking a good way to unwind and find ideas for poems.