Catherine
Crawley has
been a journalist, teacher and workplace consultant in California, Washington,
D.C., Nebraska and Southeast Asia. Originally from the United Kingdom,
she holds a master’s degree in education from Vanderbilt University
and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University
of Tennessee. She is currently a doctoral student studying environmental
communications in the College of Communications at the University of
Tennessee.
After discovering Doris Ivie’s Writing Women group in February 2002, she joined the Guild. Since then, she has been scheduling reading events, arranging distribution and working on other publicity activities for the launch of the 2002 Guild anthology Literary Lunch. Catherine’s writing credits include publication in numerous magazines and newspapers as a journalist. Her short story, “Love Feast,” is featured in Literary Lunch. Catherine has a keen interest in nature writing, especially poetry, taking inspiration from poets Mary Oliver and Gary Snyder as well as writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Barbara Kingsolver. She would like to see the Guild expand its opportunities for writers interested in writing about the natural world. In addition, she hopes the Guild can expand its reach to new writers, particularly those who are in other professions but who would like to write. As a workplace consultant, she encountered managers and executives in the corporate world who wanted an outlet for writing but didn't know where to start. |
