Catherine McNeil
Catherine McNeil is the author of emily & elspeth (Caitlin Press, 2023), and under the influence (Bedazzled Ink) 2016 which won Milieu’s National Emerging Writers Competition. She has been widely published in literary magazines, including Event, Queer Chroma, Sinister Wisdom, and the Capilano Review, and in anthologies throughout Canada, the United States & England for the past thirty years. emily & elspeth is coming out with Dagger Editions in the fall of 2022. She lives in Halfmoon Bay, BC, with her dog, Gaia and her cat, Lavender. She is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She won first prize in the SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors 2023, Diverse Voices.
She participated in the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society's Art & Words Festival in 2023, and 2024.