Catherine Puckett

Catherine Puckett has published fiction in Many Mountains Moving, and nonfiction nature/creative nonfiction essays in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. Two more recent nonfiction creative nonfiction nature essays are “Beauty and the Beast,” an essay about women, mythology, culture, and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, which was published in the book Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Another essay, “Santa Fe,” was published in 2018 in the journal Collateral.

Her educational background is in wildlife ecology, journalism, and (later) creative fiction and nonfiction writing. In science, she studied wildlife ecology, specializing in herpetology, particularly tortoises, crocodilians, and (on occasion) snakes, and has also studied alligators and crocodiles in Florida, Venezuela, and Belize. Catherine is currently working on a book of essays, a memoir.

Catherine Puckett

Catherine Puckett has published fiction in Many Mountains Moving, and nonfiction nature/creative nonfiction essays in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. Two more recent nonfiction creative nonfiction nature essays are “Beauty and the Beast,” an essay about women, mythology, culture, and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, which was published in the book Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Another essay, “Santa Fe,” was published in 2018 in the journal Collateral.

Her educational background is in wildlife ecology, journalism, and (later) creative fiction and nonfiction writing. In science, she studied wildlife ecology, specializing in herpetology, particularly tortoises, crocodilians, and (on occasion) snakes, and has also studied alligators and crocodiles in Florida, Venezuela, and Belize. Catherine is currently working on a book of essays, a memoir.