Cathleen Collins

A native Pennsylvanian and a HACC alumna, Cathleen "Cat" Collins has been fascinated with words for as long as she can remember. She started out writing poetry and short stories, but somehow, enough characters wiggled their way into her thoughts that she had to put them on paper. Thanks to a vast network of friends (both in-person and in the magical land of the internet) cheering her on, she has started more projects than she could ever possibly finish while working nights in a state facility, caring for the developmentally disabled. All her work is centered around the L in LGBTQ+ and varies from paranormal/fantasy to plain old romance to feral children (and, let’s be honest, who doesn’t love feral children?).

Cat spends her days lounging about the farmette she shares with her partner of twenty years, Lori, and their menagerie of horses, cats, dogs, and feathered friends. She enjoys starting construction projects she will never truly complete, growing a jungle of vegetables, and pretending she doesn’t like to bake.

You can email Cat or find her perusing all the crazy cat groups on Facebook. Since technology is the bane of her simple existence, she will most likely never tweet, hashtag, or TikTok her way into internet infamy without encouragement from a high voltage cattle prod or a carrot stick baited with peanut-butter cups.