Catherine Ricketts is an essayist, songwriter, and writing instructor. Her nonfiction on the arts, grief, joy, and spirituality appears in the Kenyon Review Online, the Ploughshares blog, Electric Literature, The Christian Century, Image, The Millions, Paste, and the music blog for the NPR-affiliate WXPN. She studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA in nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. Her first book is The Mother Artist, a work of literary nonfiction on motherhood and artistic practice. Find her on Instagram at @bycatherinericketts, or stay in touch via her newsletter. 

Catherine is available for freelance writing in arts journalism, literary criticism, and personal essay. She regularly speaks on podcasts on the subjects of grief, addiction, faith, and the arts. She teaches workshops for new and experienced writers in spiritual nonfiction, writing about the arts, writing through grief, personal essay, and memoir.